CVE-2007-5395 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450695 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196803 http://secunia.com/advisories/27300 http://secunia.com/advisories/27340 http://secunia.com/advisories/27631 http://secunia.com/advisories/27702 http://secunia.com/advisories/27783 http://secunia.com/advisories/28101 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-78/advisory/ http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-79/advisory/ http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-27.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1432 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483368/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483370/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26365 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-545-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3770 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3771 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371221 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38317 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00411.html