CVE-2002-0838
N/A
Published: October 1, 2002 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:58 PM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsGvGhostviewGgv
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Remediation
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References (18)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_CALDERA
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-053.0.txtVendor Advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000542Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103305615613319&w=2Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103305778615625&w=2Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103487806800388&w=2x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/47780&zone_32=category:securityVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-176Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-179Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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