CVE-2008-3863
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 8.4%
exploitation probability
8.4%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00000.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1021.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/32137http://secunia.com/advisories/32521http://secunia.com/advisories/32530http://secunia.com/advisories/32753http://secunia.com/advisories/32854http://secunia.com/advisories/32970http://secunia.com/advisories/33109http://secunia.com/advisories/35074http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-41/