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October 7, 2008
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
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Multiple vulnerabilities were found in WordNet, possibly allowing for
the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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WordNet is a large lexical database of English.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-dicts/wordnet < 3.0-r2 >= 3.0-r2
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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:
* J...
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