National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5395

Overview

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.

Impact

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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2007-3339

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00411.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371221

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371221

External Source: XF

Name: abiword-linkgrammar-sentence-bo(38317)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38317

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3771

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3771

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3770

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3770

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-545-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-545-1

External Source: BID

Name: 26365

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26365

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071107 Secunia Research: AbiWord Link Grammar "separate_sentence()"Buffer Overflow

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483370/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071107 Secunia Research: Link Grammar "separate_sentence()" BufferOverflow

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483368/100/0/threaded

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1432

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1432

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200711-27

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-27.xml

External Source: MISC

Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-79/advisory/

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-79/advisory/

External Source: MISC

Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-78/advisory/

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-78/advisory/

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28101

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28101

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27783

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27783

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27702

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27702

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27631

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27631

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27340

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27340

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27300

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27300

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196803

Hyperlink:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196803

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450695

Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450695