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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200812-02">
<title>enscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
<synopsis>
Two buffer overflows in enscript might lead to the execution of arbitrary
code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">enscript</product>
<announced>2008-12-02</announced>
<revised count="02">2008-12-02</revised>
<bug>243228</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-text/enscript" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.6.4-r4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.6.4-r4</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
enscript is a powerful ASCII to PostScript file converter.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Two stack-based buffer overflows in the read_special_escape() function
in src/psgen.c have been reported. Ulf Harnhammar of Secunia Research
discovered a vulnerability related to the "setfilename" command
(CVE-2008-3863), and Kees Cook of Ubuntu discovered a vulnerability
related to the "font" escape sequence (CVE-2008-4306).
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
An attacker could entice a user or automated system to process
specially crafted input with the special escapes processing enabled
using the "-e" option, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary
code.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All enscript users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/enscript-1.6.4-r4"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3863">CVE-2008-3863</uri>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4306">CVE-2008-4306</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-11-27T17:28:05Z">
rbu
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-11-27T17:37:26Z">
rbu
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-11-27T17:37:33Z">
rbu
</metadata>
</glsa>