CVE-2002-0838 (GCVE-0-2002-0838)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-10-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:03
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2002-09-26 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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