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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-12 Urgent Mitigation for Apache HTTP Server Flaw

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Calendar Grey October 7, 2008
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Multiple vulnerabilities were found in WordNet, possibly allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200810-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: WordNet: Execution of arbitrary code Date: October 07, 2008 Bugs: #211491 ID: 200810-01

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities were found in WordNet, possibly allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= WordNet is a large lexical database of English.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-dicts/wordnet < 3.0-r2 >= 3.0-r2
========== Jukka Ruohonen initially reported a boundary error within the searchwn() function in src/wn.c. A thorough investigation by the oCERT team revealed several other vulnerabilities in WordNet:
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