CVE-2008-4306

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-4306
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-11-04 21:00:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in enscript before 1.6.4 has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to the font escape sequence.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 9.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-119 | NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Ubuntu Linux 6.06 lts All All
Operating System Ubuntu Linux 7.10 All All All
Operating System Ubuntu Linux 8.04 lts All All
Operating System Ubuntu Linux 8.10 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA33109 - Red Hat update for enscript - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0321 - rPath Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Ubuntu update for enscript - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
enscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1670-1 enscript af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
osvdb.org/49569 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:243 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Fedora update for enscript - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian update for enscript - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-660-1: enscript vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
ASA-2008-504 (RHSA-2008-1021) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com
rPath update for enscript - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: enscript-1.6.4-10.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2887 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Gentoo update for enscript - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2008:024 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: enscript-1.6.4-9.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
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