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Fedora 10: 2009-1293 Critical: Enscript Memory Leak Patch

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2008
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important enhancement for enscript in Fedora 9 tackles buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Utilize yum for secure installation.
There were found various buffer overflows in enscript

Summary

GNU enscript is a free replacement for Adobe's Enscript

program. Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript(TM) and spools

generated PostScript output to the specified printer or saves it to a

file. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and

includes many options for customizing printouts.

There were found various buffer overflows in enscript. This update fixes

CVE-2008-3863 and CVE-2008-4306

* Mon Nov 3 2008 Adam Tkac 1.6.4-10

- fixed various buffer overflows (CVE-2008-3863, CVE-2008-4306)

[ 1 ] Bug #466771 - CVE-2008-3863 enscript: "setfilename" special escape buffer overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466771

[ 2 ] Bug #469311 - CVE-2008-4306 enscript: "font" special escape buffer overflows

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469311

su -c 'yum update enscript' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.6.4
Release: 10.fc9
URL: Summary : A plain ASCII to PostScript converter.

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