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CVE-2002-0838

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

• Ggv: 1.0.2
• Ghostview: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.5
• Gv: 2.7.6, 2.7b1, 2.7b2, 2.7b3, 2.7b4, 2.7b5 (+12)

References

• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000542
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103305615613319&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103305778615625&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103487806800388&w=2
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/47780&zone_32=category:security
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-176
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-179
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-182
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10201.php
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/600777
• http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021008-1.txt

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