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evince -- Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Description:

Secunia reports:

A vulnerability has been discovered in Evince, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "get_next_text()" function in ps/ps.c. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PostScript file.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: evince -- Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>