Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1634-1 wordnet -- stack and heap overflows
- Date Reported:
- 01 Sep 2008
- Affected Packages:
- wordnet
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 481186.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2149, CVE-2008-3908. - More information:
-
Rob Holland discovered several programming errors in WordNet, an electronic lexical database of the English language. These flaws could allow arbitrary code execution when used with untrusted input, for example when WordNet is in use as a back end for a web application.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.1-4+etch1.
For the testing distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1:3.0-11+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1:3.0-12.
We recommend that you upgrade your wordnet package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-sense-index_2.1-4+etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-base_2.1-4+etch1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-base_2.1-4+etch1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.