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critical9.3

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 o…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
ArtifexAfpl Ghostscript
Versions 6.0, 6.01, 6.50, 7.00, 7.03, 7.04
ArtifexGhostscript Fonts
Versions 6.0, 8.11
ArtifexGpl Ghostscript
through 8.70
Versions 8.01, 8.15, 8.50, 8.51, 8.54

Weakness classification

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