Bug 75922

Summary:	KGhostview Arbitary Code Execution
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	James Brost <kb2wdi>
Component:	kdegraphics	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021008-1.txt
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Description James Brost 2002-10-15 00:50:17 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020916

Description of problem:
KGhostview includes a DSC 3.0 parser from GSview, which is vulnerable to a
buffer overflow while parsing a specially crafted .ps input file. It also
contains code from gv 3.5.x which is vulnerable to another buffer overflow
triggered by malformed postscript or Adobe pdf files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Viewing certain Postscript or PDF files can result in the execution of
arbitary code placed in the file and as a result opens possibilities for any
remote manipulation under the local user account.


Additional info:

KGhostView of any KDE release between KDE 1.1 and KDE 3.0.3a

Comment 1 Ngo Than 2002-10-21 21:24:06 UTC

It's fixed in 3.0.3-0.7.2. We will release it as errata soon