National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3908

Overview

Multiple buffer overflows in Princeton WordNet (wn) 3.0 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long argument on the command line; a long (2) WNSEARCHDIR, (3) WNHOME, or (4) WNDBVERSION environment variable; or (5) a user-supplied dictionary (aka data file). NOTE: since WordNet itself does not run with special privileges, this issue only crosses privilege boundaries when WordNet is invoked as a third party component.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: BID

Name: 30958

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30958

External Source: XF

Name: wordnet-binsrch-search-bo(44851)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44851

External Source: XF

Name: wordnet-wninit-bo(44850)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44850

External Source: XF

Name: wordnet-morphinit-bo(44849)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44849

External Source: XF

Name: wordnet-morph-search-bo(44848)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44848

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080901 [oCERT-2008-014] WordNet stack and heap overflows

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495883/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/wordnet.patch

Hyperlink:http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/wordnet.patch

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/analysis.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/analysis.txt

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200810-01

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200810-01.xml

External Source: SREASON

Name: 4217

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4217

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32184

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32184