← back
CVE-2002-0838

CVE-2002-0838

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 2.0%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDOct 1
1st PoCSep 26
exploitation probability
2.0%top 21% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
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
n/a · n/a
public PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/21871exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/21872
⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-053.0.txthttp://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000542http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103305615613319&w=2http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103305778615625&w=2http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103487806800388&w=2http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/47780&zone_32=category:securityhttp://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-176http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-179http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-182http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10201.phphttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/600777http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021008-1.txt