fkie_cve-2008-3863
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-10-23 22:00
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
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