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WordNet Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30242
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Release Date:
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2008-05-14
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | WordNet 3.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-2149 (Secunia mirror)
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This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in WordNet, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the "searchwn()" function in src/wn.c and within the "wngrep()" function in lib/search.c. These can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows via overly long strings passed as arguments to the "wn" binary.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the application is accessible e.g. via a web server.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 3.0. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Restrict access to trusted users only.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported in a Gentoo bug report by Jukka Ruohonen.
Original Advisory:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211491
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