CVE-2006-5864: GNU Gv

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 16.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ps_gettext function in ps.c for GNU gv 3.6.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PostScript (PS) file with certain headers that contain long comments, as demonstrated using the (1) DocumentMedia, (2) DocumentPaperSizes, and possibly (3) PageMedia and (4) PaperSize headers. NOTE: this issue can be exploited through other products that use gv such as evince.

Affected products

• GNU Gv: version 3.5.8 only; version 3.6.0 only; version 3.6.1 only; version 3.6.2 only

Published 2006-11-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.