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Subject:
Security ERRATA for enscript on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
From:
Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:36:23 -0600
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Synopsis:	Moderate: enscript security update
Issue date:	2008-12-15
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-3863 CVE-2008-4306 CVE-2008-5078

Several buffer overflow flaws were found in GNU enscript. An attacker could
craft an ASCII file in such a way that it could execute arbitrary commands
if the file was opened with enscript with the "special escapes" option (-e
or --escapes) enabled. (CVE-2008-3863, CVE-2008-4306, CVE-2008-5078)


SL 3.0.x

      SRPMS:
enscript-1.6.1-24.7.src.rpm
      i386:
enscript-1.6.1-24.7.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
enscript-1.6.1-24.7.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

      SRPMS:
enscript-1.6.1-33.el4_7.1.src.rpm
      i386:
enscript-1.6.1-33.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
enscript-1.6.1-33.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

      SRPMS:
enscript-1.6.4-4.1.1.el5_2.src.rpm
      i386:
enscript-1.6.4-4.1.1.el5_2.i386.rpm
      x86_64:
enscript-1.6.4-4.1.1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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