CVE-2002-0838
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…
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB2 entries
- GV 2.x/3.x - '.PDF'/'.PS' File Buffer Overflow (1) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 21871local, linuxpublished 26 Sept 2002Verified
- GV 2.x/3.x - '.PDF'/'.PS' File Buffer Overflow (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 21872local, linuxpublished 26 Sept 2002Verified
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Timeline
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By mitre
- 54 days later
· 54 days later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
17
- DSA-179 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- MDKSA-2002:069 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021008-1.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-182 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- CLA-2002:542 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- 20020926 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 09.26.2002: Exploitable Buffer Overflow in gv (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MDKSA-2002:071 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- 5808 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-176 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- gv-sscanf-function-bo(10201) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:212 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:220 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:207 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- VU#600777 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/47780&zone_32=category:security (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20021017 GLSA: ggv (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20020926 Errata: iDEFENSE Security Advisory 09.26.2002: Exploitable Buffer Overflow in gv (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2002-0830 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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