Gentoo: GLSA 200703-24 Normal: mgv Stack Overflow Code Execution
gentoo
March 26, 2007
mgv improperly handles user-supplied data possibly allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200703-24
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: mgv: Stack overflow in included gv code
Date: March 26, 2007
Bugs: #154645
ID: 200703-24
Synopsis
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mgv improperly handles user-supplied data possibly allowing for the
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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mgv is a Postscript viewer with a Motif interface, based on Ghostview
and GNU gv.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-text/mgv <= 3.1.5 Vulnerable!
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NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate
to another package if one is available or wait for the
existing packages to be marked stable by their
architecture maintainers.
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mgv includes code from gv that does not properly boundary check
user-supplied data before copying it into process buffers.
Impact
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An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Postscript
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