CVE-2008-4306 (GCVE-0-2008-4306)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-11-04 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Buffer overflow in enscript before 1.6.4 has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to the font escape sequence.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
21 references
Date Public
2008-11-03 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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