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Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:14:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: wordnet@...nceton.edu
Subject: Re: Multiples vulnerabilities in wordnet
I've assigned CVE-2008-2149 to just deal with the "overflow in a long
command line" as reported for the searchwn function. This is based on the
comment in the Gentoo bug report that "I have seen that Wordnet is
sometimes used as a backend in e.g. web applications," otherwise might
have dismissed it as just a regular command-line overflow. (Increasing
application connectivity is making this distinction harder, though.)
If additional detailed research is performed, then other CVEs could be
assigned accordingly.
- Steve
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Name: CVE-2008-2149
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2149
Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211491
Stack-based buffer overflow in the searchwn function in Wordnet 2.0,
2.1, and 3.0 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute
arbitrary code via a long command line option. NOTE: this issue
probably does not cross privilege boundaries except in cases in which
Wordnet is used as a back end.
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