GV 2.x/3.x - '.PDF'/'.PS' File Buffer Overflow (1)

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5808/info gv is a freely available, open source Portable Document Format PDF and PostScript PS viewing utility. It is available for Unix and Linux operating systems. It has been reported that an insecure sscanf function exists in gv. Due to this...

snplog.bof.txt

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 00:42:49 +0000 From: Rupert Weber-Henschel To: [email protected] Subject: snplog-1.0 buffer overflow There is a possible buffer overflow in snplog-1.0. Or is it 0.1? The tar file is 0.1, the docs say 1.0. % snplog contains tcplogd, icmplogd, udplogd The offending code is...