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Gentoo: 202104-09 Urgent: GNOME 3.x Remote Code Exploitation Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2003
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Debian GNU/Linux security advisory for gnome-2.x points out possible threats of unauthorized code execution due to specially designed documents.
An attacker can prepare a malicious PostScript or PDF file which will provide the attacker with access to the victim's account and privileges.

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200304-05
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                    =kdebase-2.2.2-r5, >=kdelibs-2.2.2a-r1
                    >=kdegraphics-2.2.2-r2

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- From advisory:
"KDE uses Ghostscript software for processing of PostScript (PS) and PDF files in a way that allows for the execution of arbitrary commands that can be contained in such files.
An attacker can prepare a malicious PostScript or PDF file which will provide the attacker with access to the victim's account and privileges when the victim opens this malicious file for viewing or when the victim browses a directory containing such malicious file and has file previews enabled.
An attacker can provide malicious files remotely to a victim in an e-mail, as part of a webpage, via an ftp server and possible o...

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PACKAGE : kde-2.x
SUMMARY : aribitrary code execution
DATE : 2003-04-11 08:43 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <kdebase-2.2.2-r5, <kdelibs-2.2.2a-r1
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