-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-9351 2008-11-06 02:56:25 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : enscript Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.6.4 Release : 9.fc8 URL : http://www.codento.com/people/mtr/genscript/ Summary : A plain ASCII to PostScript converter. Description : GNU enscript is a free replacement for Adobe's Enscript program. Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript(TM) and spools generated PostScript output to the specified printer or saves it to a file. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and includes many options for customizing printouts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: There were found various buffer overflows in enscript. This update fixes CVE-2008-3863 and CVE-2008-4306 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Nov 3 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 1.6.4-9 - fixed various buffer overflows (CVE-2008-3863, CVE-2008-4306) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #466771 - CVE-2008-3863 enscript: "setfilename" special escape buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466771 [ 2 ] Bug #469311 - CVE-2008-4306 enscript: "font" special escape buffer overflows https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469311 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update enscript' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce