Vulnerability in Artifex Afpl Ghostscript
CVE-2009-3743
Off-by-one error in the Ins_MINDEX function in the TrueType bytecode interpreter in Ghostscript before 8.71 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a malformed TrueType font in a document that trigger an integer overflow and a heap-based buffer overflow.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.068 (93.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.068 · newest: 0.068 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Artifex Afpl Ghostscript — versions 8.52, 8.11, 8.50
- Artifex Ghostscript Fonts — versions 8.11, 6.0
- Artifex Gpl Ghostscript — versions 8.60, 8.50, 8.64
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml (vendor-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514892/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JALR-87YGN8 (US Government Resource)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/644319 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)