CVE-2004-1717: Gv

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in the psscan function in ps.c for gv (ghostview) allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Postscript file with a long (1) BoundingBox, (2) comment, (3) Orientation, (4) PageOrder, or (5) Pages value.

Affected products

• Gv Gv: version 2.7.6 only; version 2.7b1 only; version 2.7b2 only; version 2.7b3 only; version 2.7b4 only; version 2.7b5 only; …

Published 2004-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.