DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3743

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3743

    Published: 26 Aug 2010Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2009-3743

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3743

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ghostscript

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/ghostscript?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8.71~dfsg-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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