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- Author: voroskoi
- Vulnerable: 0.6.0-1
- Unaffected: 0.6.0-2siwenna1
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.
- Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/1500