5.1 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.923 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.9%
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.