CVE-2009-3743: Artifex Afpl Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Artifex Afpl Ghostscript: version 6.0 only; version 6.01 only; version 6.50 only; version 7.00 only; version 7.03 only; version 7.04 only; …
• Artifex Ghostscript Fonts: version 6.0 only; version 8.11 only
• Artifex Gpl Ghostscript: up to and including 8.70; version 8.01 only; version 8.15 only; version 8.50 only; version 8.51 only; version 8.54 only; …

Published 2010-08-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.