| Revision Date: | 2005-02-15 | Version: | 502 |
| Title: | RHSA-2005:040: enscript security update (Low) |
| Description: | GNU enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript.
Enscript has the ability to interpret special escape sequences. A flaw was found in the handling of the epsf command used to insert inline EPS files into a document. An attacker could create a carefully crafted ASCII file which made use of the epsf pipe command in such a way that it could execute arbitrary commands if the file was opened with enscript by a victim. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-1184 to this issue.
Additional flaws in Enscript were also discovered which can only be triggered by executing enscript with carefully crafted command line arguments. These flaws therefore only have a security impact if enscript is executed by other programs and passed untrusted data from remote users. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CAN-2004-1185 and CAN-2004-1186 to these issues.
All users of enscript should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2004-1184
CVE-2004-1185
CVE-2004-1186
RHSA-2005:040-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is installed AND enscript is earlier than 0:1.6.1-28.3
AND enscript is signed with Red Hat master key
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