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Debian DSA-1432-1 : link-grammar - buffer overflow

critical Nessus Plugin ID 29705

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Alin Rad Pop discovered that link-grammar, Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for English, performed insufficient validation within its tokenizer, which could allow a malicious input file to execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the link-grammar package.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this package is not present.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.2-4etch1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450695

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1432

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 29705

File Name: debian_DSA-1432.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/17/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:link-grammar, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5395

CWE: 119

DSA: 1432