DSA-1634-1 wordnet -- stack and heap overflows

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+etch4.

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+etch4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-sense-index_2.1-4+etch4_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-base_2.1-4+etch4_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet_2.1-4+etch4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_2.1-4+etch4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.