Security Information / 2011 / Security Information -- DSA-2361-1 chasen

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2361-1 chasen -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

07 Dec 2011

Affected Packages:

chasen

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-4000.

More information:

It was discovered that ChaSen, a Japanese morphological analysis system, contains a buffer overflow, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution in programs using the library.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.4-2+lenny2.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.4-11+squeeze2.

We recommend that you upgrade your chasen packages.