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diff --git a/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-03.xml b/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-03.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..65169f33 --- /dev/null +++ b/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-03.xml @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> +<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> +<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> + +<glsa id="200502-03"> + <title>enscript: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> + <synopsis> + enscript suffers from vulnerabilities and design flaws, potentially + resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. + </synopsis> + <product type="ebuild">enscript</product> + <announced>February 02, 2005</announced> + <revised>February 02, 2005: 01</revised> + <bug>77408</bug> + <access>remote</access> + <affected> + <package name="app-text/enscript" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">1.6.3-r3</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="lt">1.6.3-r3</vulnerable> + </package> + </affected> + <background> + <p> + enscript is a powerful ASCII to PostScript file converter. + </p> + </background> + <description> + <p> + 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). + </p> + </description> + <impact type="normal"> + <p> + 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. + </p> + </impact> + <workaround> + <p> + There is no known workaround at this time. + </p> + </workaround> + <resolution> + <p> + All enscript users should upgrade to the latest version: + </p> + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/enscript-1.6.3-r3"</code> + </resolution> + <references> + <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1184">CAN-2004-1184</uri> + <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1185">CAN-2004-1185</uri> + <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1186">CAN-2004-1186</uri> + </references> + <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:31:54 +0000"> + koon + </metadata> + <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:01:52 +0000"> + koon + </metadata> + <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:40:35 +0000"> + koon + </metadata> +</glsa> |