CVE-2008-5078: GNU Escript

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) recognize_eps_file function (src/psgen.c) and (2) tilde_subst function (src/util.c) in GNU enscript 1.6.1, and possibly earlier, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an epsf escape sequence with a long filename.

Affected products

• GNU Escript: version 1.6.1 only

Published 2008-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.