CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0838

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2002-10-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-10-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• ggv ggv 1.0.2 • ghostview ghostview 1.3 • ghostview ghostview 1.4 • ghostview ghostview 1.4.1 • ghostview ghostview 1.5 • gv gv 2.7.6 • gv gv 2.7b1 • gv gv 2.7b2 • gv gv 2.7b3 • gv gv 2.7b4 • gv gv 2.7b5 • gv gv 2.9.4 • gv gv 3.0.0 • gv gv 3.0.4 • gv gv 3.1.4 • gv gv 3.1.6 • gv gv 3.2.4 • gv gv 3.4.2 • gv gv 3.4.3 • gv gv 3.4.12 • gv gv 3.5.2 • gv gv 3.5.3 • gv gv 3.5.8

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