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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200408-10">
+ <title>gv: Exploitable Buffer Overflow</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ gv contains an exploitable buffer overflow that allows an attacker to
+ execute arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">gv</product>
+ <announced>2004-08-12</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2004-08-12</revised>
+ <bug>59385</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-text/gv" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.5.8-r4</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="le">3.5.8-r3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ gv is a PostScript and PDF viewer for X which provides a user interface for
+ the ghostscript interpreter.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ gv contains a buffer overflow vulnerability where an unsafe sscanf() call
+ is used to interpret PDF and PostScript files.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ By enticing a user to view a malformed PDF or PostScript file an attacker
+ could execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running gv.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to
+ upgrade to the latest available version of gv.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All gv users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge sync
+
+ # emerge -pv "&gt;=app-text/gv-3.5.8-r4"
+ # emerge "&gt;=app-text/gv-3.5.8-r4"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-0838">CAN-2002-0838</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-08-05T09:15:36Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-08-08T20:43:19Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>