CVE-2008-3863

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the read_special_escape function in src/psgen.c in GNU Enscript 1.6.1 and 1.6.4 beta, when the -e (aka special escapes processing) option is enabled, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ASCII file, related to the setfilename command.

Risk Information

Base Score

8.8

MODERATE

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

24.697

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
(RHSA-2008:1016) Moderate: enscript security update enscript-1.6.4-4.1.1.el5_2.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2008:1016) Moderate: enscript security update enscript-1.6.4-4.1.1.el5_2.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234