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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-3715 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1317-1 Ghostscript vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:38:30.343Z

Reserved: 2009-10-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-3743

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-08-26T21:00:01.200

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2009-3743

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-3743 - Bugzilla

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