Secure testing team - Nov 2008 - Bug#506261: enscript: Buffer overflows

Package: enscript
Version: 1.6.4-12
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

Hi, 
buffer overflows have been discovered in enscript:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3863
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4306

I''m attaching a patch by Werner Fink of SuSE covering these
issues.

Cheers,
        Moritz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, ''unstable'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages enscript depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.7-15      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpaper1                    1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact

enscript recommends no packages.

Versions of packages enscript suggests:
ii  ghostscript [postscript- 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  lpr                      1:2008.05.17    BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling 

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