metadata/glsa/glsa-200502-03.xml

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<glsa id="200502-03">
  <title>enscript: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    enscript suffers from vulnerabilities and design flaws, potentially
    resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">enscript</product>
  <announced>February 02, 2005</announced>
  <revised>February 02, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>77408</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/enscript" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.6.3-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.6.3-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    enscript is a powerful ASCII to PostScript file converter.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    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).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All enscript users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-text/enscript-1.6.3-r3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1184">CAN-2004-1184</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1185">CAN-2004-1185</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1186">CAN-2004-1186</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:31:54 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue,  1 Feb 2005 17:01:52 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue,  1 Feb 2005 21:40:35 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>