CVE - CVE-2009-3743

CVE-ID
CVE-2009-3743	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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BUGTRAQ:20101125 TSSA-2010-01 Ghostscript library Ins_MINDEX() integer overflow and heap corruption URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514892/100/0/threaded CERT-VN:VU#644319 URL:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/644319 GENTOO:GLSA-201412-17 URL:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml MISC:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JALR-87YGN8 REDHAT:RHSA-2012:0095 URL:https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html SECTRACK:1024785 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024785
Assigning CNA
CERT/CC
Date Record Created
20091022	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20091022)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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