[ GLSA 200502-03 ] enscript: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-03
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: enscript: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: February 02, 2005
      Bugs: #77408
        ID: 200502-03

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Synopsis
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enscript suffers from vulnerabilities and design flaws, potentially
resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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enscript is a powerful ASCII to PostScript file converter.

Affected packages
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     Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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  1 app-text/enscript < 1.6.3-r3 >= 1.6.3-r3

Description
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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).

Impact
======

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.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All enscript users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/enscript-1.6.3-r3"

References
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  [ 1 ] CAN-2004-1184
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1184
  [ 2 ] CAN-2004-1185
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1185
  [ 3 ] CAN-2004-1186
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1186

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-03.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security_at_gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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