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FreeBSD : enscript -- multiple vulnerabilities (72da8af6-7c75-11d9-8cc5-000854d03344)

high Nessus Plugin ID 18981

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Erik Sjolund discovered several issues in enscript : it suffers from several buffer overflows, quotes and shell escape characters are insufficiently sanitized in filenames, and it supported taking input from an arbitrary command pipe, with unwanted side effects.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200502-03

http://www.nessus.org/u?e51c6afe

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 18981

File Name: freebsd_pkg_72da8af67c7511d98cc5000854d03344.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:enscript-a4, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:enscript-letter, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:enscript-letterdj, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1184, CVE-2004-1185, CVE-2004-1186