Gentoo: GLSA-200711-27 Normal: Link Grammar Code Execution Risk
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November 19, 2007
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Link Grammar.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200711-27
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Link Grammar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: November 18, 2007
Bugs: #196803
ID: 200711-27
Synopsis
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A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Link Grammar.
Background
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The Link Grammar parser is a syntactic parser of English, based on link
grammar, an original theory of English syntax.
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1 dev-libs/link-grammar < 4.2.4-r1 >= 4.2.4-r1
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Alin Rad Pop from Secunia Research discovered a boundary error in the
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