Unsanitised input can cause 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.
Usually, enscript is only run locally, but since it is executed inside
of viewcvs some of the problems mentioned above can easily be turned
into a remote vulnerability.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.6.3-1.3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.6.4-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your enscript package.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sou...
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