Bug 144683

Summary: CAN-2004-1184 multiple security issues in enscript (CAN-2004-1185 CAN-2004-1186)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: enscriptAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version: 3.0CC: security-response-team, srevivo
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-10 17:26:37 UTC
This was reported to vendor-sec on 2004-01-07

Erik Sjölund has discovered several security relevant problems in
enscript, a program to converts ASCII text to Postscript and other
formats.  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies
the following vulnerabilities:

CAN-2004-1184

    Unsanitised input can caues the execution of arbitrary commands
    via EPSF pipe support.  This has been disabled, also upstream.

CAN-2004-1185

    Due to missing sanitising of filenames it is possible that a
    specially crafted filename can cause arbitrary commands to be
    executed.

CAN-2004-1186

    Multiple buffer overflows can cause the program to crash.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-01-10 17:27:02 UTC
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-01 14:43:35 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-039.html