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Gentoo: GLSA-200408-10 Normal: gv Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2004
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A critical buffer overrun vulnerability in the gv application has been identified, allowing unauthorized code execution. Upgrade the software per Gentoo's guidance
gv contains an exploitable buffer overflow that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200408-10
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: gv: Exploitable Buffer Overflow
      Date: August 12, 2004
      Bugs: #59385
        ID: 200408-10


Synopsis
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gv contains an exploitable buffer overflow that allows an attacker to
execute arbitrary code.

Background
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gv is a PostScript and PDF viewer for X which provides a user interface
for the ghostscript interpreter.

Affected packages
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     Package      /   Vulnerable   /                        Unaffected
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  1  app-text/gv      <= 3.5.8-r3                          >= 3.5.8-r4

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gv contains a buffer overflow vulnerability where an unsafe sscanf()
call is used to interpret PDF and PostScript files.

Impact
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