Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 23, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2008-3863
CVE-2008-3863
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.
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References
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