Bug 371221 (CVE-2007-5395)

Summary: CVE-2007-5395 link-grammar buffer overflow in tokenize.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Priority: high    
Version: unspecifiedCC: uwog
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-5395
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Fixed In Version: 4.2.5-1.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-11-13 00:06:56 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 372341, 372351, 372361    
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Description Tomas Hoger 2007-11-08 14:12:47 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-5395 to the following vulnerability:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the separate_word function in tokenize.c in Link Grammar 4.1b and possibly other versions, as used in AbiWord Link Grammar 4.2.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long word, as reachable through the separate_sentence function.

References:

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-78/advisory/
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-79/advisory/
http://secunia.com/advisories/27300
http://secunia.com/advisories/27340
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2007-11-12 10:02:27 UTC 
Created attachment 255061 [details]
Upstream patch
Comment 3 Marc Maurer 2007-11-12 19:07:13 UTC 
I sent a 4.2.5 package to koji, which is pending approval to be pushed.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2007-11-13 00:06:54 UTC 
link-grammar-4.2.5-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2007-11-15 03:37:06 UTC 
link-grammar-4.2.5-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.