Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an error in Link Grammar. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3770

Affected Products

Fedora 7

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

34ae8c6bf6f45d9ce50694daa6c0761bd589de97 link-grammar-debuginfo-4.2.5-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
c3feb02b1d679ff8d65e6a8962a276dc41108e37 link-grammar-devel-4.2.5-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
0875048bc733eaa8612c6aa12eeb02d70386b4eb link-grammar-4.2.5-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
bd2d0b0e2f10cf194787236a660605f19307fea0 link-grammar-debuginfo-4.2.5-1.fc7.i386.rpm
83aff35a2b3e9d76e1460aff70aad49fe1814280 link-grammar-4.2.5-1.fc7.i386.rpm
c927f211d1cd5679f1815f7137765af320d1172b link-grammar-devel-4.2.5-1.fc7.i386.rpm
4f7ace323dd0f01d87692752dfc01b958588fb1d link-grammar-4.2.5-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
b60ad4a5d09a8f123de6f5eb3681785da425428c link-grammar-devel-4.2.5-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
84c486eb1e991e1468ed9ef3eae637a19504a284 link-grammar-debuginfo-4.2.5-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
92b96df32e56f1b09466fda2cce87367b3dac2b0 link-grammar-4.2.5-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
df6b2cbd6b3cfb4d108765a770d2aae1094742d1 link-grammar-devel-4.2.5-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
654b391ee47b2aa8448a31b0cd0578f82e1385f8 link-grammar-debuginfo-4.2.5-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
8ef3f7da2218084e294f54941ad04854df6dc2b6 link-grammar-4.2.5-1.fc7.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3863
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00411.html

ChangeLog

2007-11-15 : Initial release

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