CVE-2002-0838

Description

Buffer overflow in (1) gv 3.5.8 and earlier, (2) gvv 1.0.2 and earlier, (3) ggv 1.99.90 and earlier, (4) gnome-gv, and (5) kghostview in kdegraphics 2.2.2 and earlier, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed (a) PDF or (b) PostScript file, which is processed by an unsafe call to sscanf.

References

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-220.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-212.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-207.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:071

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2002:069

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021008-1.txt

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/600777

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10201.php

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-182

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-179

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-176

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/47780&zone_32=category:security

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103487806800388&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103305778615625&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103305615613319&w=2

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000542

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3