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>> Mandriva Security Update Fixes WordNet Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Title : Mandriva Security Update Fixes WordNet Code Execution Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2473
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2149
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-09-03


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable web server. These issues are caused by errors in WordNet. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1527

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2008.0
Mandriva Linux 2008.1

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
1c6a1df61fe91dda3ae4dac057401fbc 2008.0/i586/libwordnet3.0-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
1802486553d178a0802fd0ad89b6cef6 2008.0/i586/libwordnet3.0-devel-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
751310829f7f292fa358fe30111dff14 2008.0/i586/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
719473d84e3be3fdf46333f6faa74a41 2008.0/SRPMS/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
5ff81320990de26154b15e56b30b51e1 2008.0/x86_64/lib64wordnet3.0-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
99d9ad1f9abaefbf9f6acb8b31f52027 2008.0/x86_64/lib64wordnet3.0-devel-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
b91a656c9dc2d6ec69d51ba335c78b3d 2008.0/x86_64/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
719473d84e3be3fdf46333f6faa74a41 2008.0/SRPMS/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1:
70639dc3c0f6905ee668f17dc9e6d0fb 2008.1/i586/libwordnet3.0-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
abb67cb73d41e34361933e1f684b7b31 2008.1/i586/libwordnet3.0-devel-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
365af128c071777483b61ed89b760802 2008.1/i586/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
d5371cdefa639f61fc303c3804218c95 2008.1/SRPMS/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64:
14bbe9699fe4d0b6b6aa6660a22799a7 2008.1/x86_64/lib64wordnet3.0-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
45c1a11f43f3b53517b63f9a74e15a1b 2008.1/x86_64/lib64wordnet3.0-devel-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
615b4e49a4be1edac0fc5320a46f1e9d 2008.1/x86_64/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
d5371cdefa639f61fc303c3804218c95 2008.1/SRPMS/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2473
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2008-09/msg00000.php

ChangeLog

2008-09-03 : Initial release

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