Security Advisory

CVE-2002-0838

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-10-01 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 03:03:49
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.