CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
68.6%
A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in gv.
A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in gv. gv allows a user to view and navigate PostScript and PDF documents by providing an interface to the ghostscript interpreter. This vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable host.
A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable host with the privileges of the victim.
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Updated: October 17, 2002
Affected
<http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-176>
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23600777 Feedback>).
Updated: October 17, 2002
Affected
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
`- - --------------------------------------------------------------------
GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-003
PACKAGE : ggv
SUMMARY?: buffer overflow
EXPLOIT : local
DATE ?? : 2002-10-17 08:30 UTC
- - --------------------------------------------------------------------
ggv shares the same buffer overflow problem that gv did.
Read the full advisory at
<http://www.idefense.com/advisory/09.26.02.txt>
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-text/ggv-1.99.90 and earlier update their systems
as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge ggv
emerge clean
- - --------------------------------------------------------------------
[email protected] - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
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The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
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Updated: October 17, 2002
Affected
<http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021008-1.txt>
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23600777 Feedback>).
Updated: October 17, 2002
Affected
<http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-207.html>
The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23600777 Feedback>).
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Thanks to David Endler for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Ian A Finlay.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2002-0838 |
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Severity Metric: | 16.50 Date Public: |