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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
61.13% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-ENSCRIPT-532597
  • published23 Oct 2008
  • disclosed23 Oct 2008

Introduced: 23 Oct 2008

CVE-2008-3863  (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.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the read_special_escape function in src/psgen.c in GNU Enscript 1.6.1 and 1.6.4 beta, when the -e (aka special escapes processing) option is enabled, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ASCII file, related to the setfilename command.

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