CVE-2008-5078 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5078 at MITRE

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) recognize_eps_file function (src/psgen.c) and (2) tilde_subst function (src/util.c) in GNU enscript 1.6.1, and possibly earlier, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an epsf escape sequence with a long filename.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 462353 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:005, published Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:38:08 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:30 2025