CVE-2008-3908
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 4, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 4, 2008
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in Princeton WordNet (wn) 3.0 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long argument on the command line; a long (2) WNSEARCHDIR, (3) WNHOME, or (4) WNDBVERSION environment variable; or (5) a user-supplied dictionary (aka data file). NOTE: since WordNet itself does not run with special privileges, this issue only crosses privilege boundaries when WordNet is invoked as a third party component.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 30958vdb-entry
- 32184third-party-advisory
- http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/wordnet.patch
- wordnet-binsrch-search-bo(44851)vdb-entry
- 20080901 [oCERT-2008-014] WordNet stack and heap overflowsmailing-list
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-014.html
- wordnet-wninit-bo(44850)vdb-entry
- http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/analysis.txt
- 4217third-party-advisory
- GLSA-200810-01vendor-advisory
- wordnet-morphinit-bo(44849)vdb-entry
- wordnet-morph-search-bo(44848)vdb-entry
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