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PUBLISHED DATE: October 10, 2002CVE-2002-0838:
Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CVSS:
4.6
EPSS:
443.30%
Exploitability:
3.9
In KEV:
No
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.

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