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FreeBSD Ports: enscript-a4, enscript-letter, enscript-letterdj

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

9.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following packages are affected: enscript-a4 enscript-letter enscript-letterdj CVE-2008-3863 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. CVE-2008-4306 Unspecified vulnerability in enscript before 1.6.4 in Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS, 7.10, 8.04 LTS, and 8.10 has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to a buffer overflow.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-41/ http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/a1126054-b57c-11dd-8892-0017319806e7.html

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