Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1670-1 enscript -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:
24 Nov 2008
Affected Packages:
enscript
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-3863, CVE-2008-4306.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Enscript, a converter from ASCII text to Postscript, HTML or RTF. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2008-3863

    Ulf Harnhammer discovered that a buffer overflow may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2008-4306

    Kees Cook and Tomas Hoger discovered that several buffer overflows may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.4-11.1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.4-13.

We recommend that you upgrade your enscript package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1.dsc
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4-11.1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.