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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200703-24">
+ <title>mgv: Stack overflow in included gv code</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ mgv improperly handles user-supplied data possibly allowing for the
+ execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">mgv</product>
+ <announced>2007-03-26</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-03-26</revised>
+ <bug>154645</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-text/mgv" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <vulnerable range="le">3.1.5</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ mgv is a Postscript viewer with a Motif interface, based on Ghostview
+ and GNU gv.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ mgv includes code from gv that does not properly boundary check
+ user-supplied data before copying it into process buffers.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Postscript
+ document with mgv and possibly execute arbitrary code with the rights
+ of the user running mgv.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ mgv is currently unmaintained, and the mgv website no longer exists. As
+ such, the mgv package has been masked in Portage. We recommend that
+ users select an alternate Postscript viewer such as ghostview or
+ GSview, and unmerge mgv:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --unmerge "app-text/mgv"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5864">CVE-2006-5864</uri>
+ <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-20.xml">GLSA 200611-20</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-03-14T07:32:05Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-03-20T02:27:18Z">
+ aetius
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-03-26T19:59:57Z">
+ falco
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>