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>> WordNet Multiple Function Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Title : WordNet Multiple Function Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1527
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2149
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-14
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in WordNet, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable web server. These issues are caused by buffer overflow errors in various functions (e.g. "searchwn" or "wngrep") when processing overly long arguments, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code.
Affected Products
WordNet version 3.0 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1527
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211491
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Jukka Ruohonen.
ChangeLog
2008-05-14 : Initial release
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