CVE-2008-3863 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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