Bug 144686 - CAN-2004-1184 multiple security issues in enscript (CAN-2004-1185 CAN-2004-1186)
Summary: CAN-2004-1184 multiple security issues in enscript (CAN-2004-1185 CAN-2004-1186)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: enscript
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Whiteboard: impact=low,embargo=20050120
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Blocks: 142822
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-10 17:42 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-02-15 09:19:30 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:040 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: enscript security update 2005-02-15 05:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-10 17:42:19 UTC 
*** This bug has been split off bug 144683 ***

------- Original comment by Josh Bressers (Security Response Team) on 2005.01.10
12:26 -------

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 Mark J. Cox 2005-01-26 09:43:38 UTC 
removing embargo
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2005-01-26 10:38:02 UTC 
RHSA-2005:040
Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-15 09:19:30 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-2005-040.html
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