CVE-2002-1223

Kde vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

3.3%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in DSC 3.0 parser from GSview, as used in KGhostView in KDE 1.1 and KDE 3.0.3a, may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a modified .ps (PostScript) input file.

Affected vendor

Kde

Affected product

Kde

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2002-10-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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