Executive Summary

Summary
Title link-grammar vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-545-1 First vendor Publication 2007-11-26
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2007-11-26
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 7.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10:
liblink-grammar4 4.2.2-4ubuntu0.7.10.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart AbiWord to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Alin Rad Pop discovered that AbiWord's Link Grammar parser did not correctly handle overly-long words. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, AbiWord, or other applications using Link Grammar, could be made to crash.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-545-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17567
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17567
Title: USN-545-1 -- link-grammar vulnerability
Description: Alin Rad Pop discovered that AbiWord's Link Grammar parser did not correctly handle overly-long words.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-545-1
CVE-2007-5395
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 7.10
Product(s): link-grammar
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20331
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20331
Title: DSA-1432-1 link-grammar - buffer overflow
Description: Alin Rad Pop discovered that link-grammar, Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for English, performed insufficient validation within its tokenizer, which could allow a malicious input file to execute arbitrary code.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1432-1
CVE-2007-5395
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): link-grammar
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for link-grammar vulnerability USN-545-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_545_1.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for link-grammar FEDORA-2007-3235
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_3235_link-grammar_fc8.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for link-grammar FEDORA-2007-3339
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_3339_link-grammar_fc7.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200711-27 (link-grammar)
File : nvt/glsa_200711_27.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1432-1 (link-grammar)
File : nvt/deb_1432_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
42074 Link Grammar tokenize.c separate_sentence() Function Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-12-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1432.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-29 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-545-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-20 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200711-27.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-3339.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-3235.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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