CVE-2006-5864 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-5864 at MITRE

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ps_gettext function in ps.c for GNU gv 3.6.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PostScript (PS) file with certain headers that contain long comments, as demonstrated using the (1) DocumentMedia, (2) DocumentPaperSizes, and possibly (3) PageMedia and (4) PaperSize headers. NOTE: this issue can be exploited through other products that use gv such as evince.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5.1
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 219454 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 225201 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2006:026, published Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:028, published Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:029, published Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:00:00 +0000

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4	`evince-devel >= 2.28.2-0.7.2`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA evince-devel-2.28.2-0.7.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1	`evince >= 2.28.2-0.2.68` `evince-doc >= 2.28.2-0.2.68` `evince-lang >= 2.28.2-0.2.68`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA evince-2.28.2-0.2.68
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	`evince >= 2.28.2-0.7.2` `evince-doc >= 2.28.2-0.7.2` `evince-lang >= 2.28.2-0.7.2`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA evince-2.28.2-0.7.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3	`evince >= 2.28.2-0.7.2` `evince-doc >= 2.28.2-0.7.2` `evince-lang >= 2.28.2-0.7.2`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA evince-2.28.2-0.7.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4	`evince >= 2.28.2-0.7.2` `evince-devel >= 2.28.2-0.7.2` `evince-doc >= 2.28.2-0.7.2` `evince-lang >= 2.28.2-0.7.2`	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA evince-2.28.2-0.7.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA evince-devel-2.28.2-0.7.2
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`evince >= 40.4-1.3` `evince-devel >= 40.4-1.3` `evince-lang >= 40.4-1.3` `evince-plugin-comicsdocument >= 40.4-1.3` `evince-plugin-djvudocument >= 40.4-1.3` `evince-plugin-dvidocument >= 40.4-1.3` `evince-plugin-pdfdocument >= 40.4-1.3` `evince-plugin-psdocument >= 40.4-1.3` `evince-plugin-tiffdocument >= 40.4-1.3` `evince-plugin-xpsdocument >= 40.4-1.3` `libevdocument3-4 >= 40.4-1.3` `libevview3-3 >= 40.4-1.3` `nautilus-evince >= 40.4-1.3` `typelib-1_0-EvinceDocument-3_0 >= 40.4-1.3` `typelib-1_0-EvinceView-3_0 >= 40.4-1.3`	Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA evince-40.4-1.3

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:16:57 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:18:28 2023