Out-of-Bounds Affecting enscript package, versions <1.6.4-13


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.8% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-ENSCRIPT-519872
  • published19 Dec 2008
  • disclosed19 Dec 2008

Introduced: 19 Dec 2008

CVE-2008-5078  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 enscript to version 1.6.4-13 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream enscript package and not the enscript package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) recognize_eps_file function (src/psgen.c) and (2) tilde_subst function (src/util.c) in GNU enscript 1.6.1, and possibly earlier, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an epsf escape sequence with a long filename.

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