Zen Parse found a local buffer overflow in gv version 3.5.8 and earlier.
Under this vulnerability, an attacker can create a carefully crafted,
malformed PDF or PostScript file that, when viewed using gv, executes
arbitrary commands on the system.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=103428425111983&w=2
When GV detects that the document is either a PDF file or a
GZip compressed file, it executes some commands with the help of the
system() function. Unfortunately, these commands contain the
filename, which can be considered as untrusted user input. It is then
possible to distribute a file (with a meticulously chosen filename,
that even seems innocent) that causes execution of arbitrary
shell commands when it is read with GV.
http://www.epita.fr/~bevand_m/asa/asa-0000
