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.
EPSS: 0.068 (93.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cret@cert.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cret@cert.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- cret@cert.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cret@cert.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cret@cert.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_MISC)
- cret@cert.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)