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Gentoo alert 200502-03 (enscript)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-03 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: enscript: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: February 02, 2005 Bugs: #77408 ID: 200502-03 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== enscript suffers from vulnerabilities and design flaws, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. Background ========== enscript is a powerful ASCII to PostScript file converter. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/enscript < 1.6.3-r3 >= 1.6.3-r3 Description =========== Erik Sjolund discovered several issues in enscript: it suffers from several buffer overflows (CAN-2004-1186), quotes and shell escape characters are insufficiently sanitized in filenames (CAN-2004-1185), and it supported taking input from an arbitrary command pipe, with unwanted side effects (CAN-2004-1184). Impact ====== An attacker could design malicious files or input data which, once feeded into enscript, would trigger the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running enscript. Workaround ========== There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution ========== All enscript users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/enscript-1.6.3-r3" References ========== [ 1 ] CAN-2004-1184 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1184 [ 2 ] CAN-2004-1185 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1185 [ 3 ] CAN-2004-1186 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1186 Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-03.xml Concerns? ========= Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org. License ======= Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 (Log in to post comments)
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