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.
- CVE-2008-3863
- 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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/enscript/enscript_1.6.4.orig.tar.gz
- 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.