CVE-2008-4306

enscript: "font" special escape buffer overflows

Severity Score

9.3

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Buffer overflow in enscript before 1.6.4 has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to the font escape sequence.

Vulnerabilidad inespecífica en enscript antes de la v1.6.4 en Ubuntu Linux v6.06 LTS, v7.10, v8.04 y v8.10 que tiene un impacto y unos vectores de ataque desconocidos, posiblemente este relacionado con el desbordamiento de búfer.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2008-09-29 CVE Reserved
2008-11-04 CVE Published
2023-05-05 EPSS Updated
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CAPEC

References (23)

URL	Tag	Source
http://osvdb.org/49569	Vdb Entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/32521	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32753	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32854	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32970	Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33109	Third Party Advisory
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-504.htm	X_refsource_confirm
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0321	X_refsource_confirm
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498385/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2887	X_refsource_confirm
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10718	Signature

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00000.html	2018-10-11
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1021.html	2018-10-11
http://secunia.com/advisories/32530	2018-10-11
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-02.xml	2018-10-11
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1670	2018-10-11
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:243	2018-10-11
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1016.html	2018-10-11
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-660-1	2018-10-11
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00014.html	2018-10-11
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00040.html	2018-10-11
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4306	2008-12-15
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469311	2008-12-15

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Ubuntu Search vendor "Ubuntu"		Linux Search vendor "Ubuntu" for product "Linux"				6.06 Search vendor "Ubuntu" for product "Linux" and version "6.06"		lts		Affected
Ubuntu Search vendor "Ubuntu"		Linux Search vendor "Ubuntu" for product "Linux"				7.10 Search vendor "Ubuntu" for product "Linux" and version "7.10"		-		Affected
Ubuntu Search vendor "Ubuntu"		Linux Search vendor "Ubuntu" for product "Linux"				8.04 Search vendor "Ubuntu" for product "Linux" and version "8.04"		lts		Affected
Ubuntu Search vendor "Ubuntu"		Linux Search vendor "Ubuntu" for product "Linux"				8.10 Search vendor "Ubuntu" for product "Linux" and version "8.10"		-		Affected