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Scientific Linux: Moderate Enscripting Update CVE-2008-3863 Buffer Overflow

Calendar Dec 16, 2008 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory buffer overflow enscript moderate threat Scientific Linux
Moderate: enscript security update 
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:36:23 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for enscript on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: enscript security update
Issue date:	2008-12-15
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-3863 CVE-2008-4306 CVE-2008-5078

Several buffer overflow flaws were found in GNU enscript. An attacker could
craft an ASCII file in such a way that it could execute arbitrary commands
if the file was opened with enscript with the "special escapes" option (-e
or --escapes) enabled. (CVE-2008-3863, CVE-2008-4306, CVE-2008-5078)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
enscript-1.6.1-24.7.src.rpm
 i386:
enscript-1.6.1-24.7.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
enscript-1.6.1-24.7.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
enscript-1.6.1-33.el4_7.1.src.rpm
 i386:
enscript-1.6.1-33.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
enscript-1.6.1-33.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
enscript-1.6.4-4.1.1.el5_2.src.rpm
 i386:
enscript-1.6.4-4.1.1.el5_2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
enscript-1.6.4-4.1.1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson