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National Vulnerability Database

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Vuln ID Summary CVSS Severity
CVE-2008-3863

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.

Published: October 23, 2008; 6:00:01 PM -0400 		V3.x:(not available)
 V2.0: 7.6 HIGH