CVE-2009-3743
Status: ModifiedHigh (9.3)—
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.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Base score: 9.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 6.75%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 94
- Score date: 10/6/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (3)
CWEs
- CWE-189
References
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/644319
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JALR-87YGN8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514892/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024785
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/644319
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JALR-87YGN8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514892/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024785
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
Raw JSON (NVD)
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