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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200711-27">
  <title>Link Grammar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Link Grammar.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">link-grammar</product>
  <announced>2007-11-18</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-11-18</revised>
  <bug>196803</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/link-grammar" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.2.4-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.2.4-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The Link Grammar parser is a syntactic parser of English, based on link
    grammar, an original theory of English syntax.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Alin Rad Pop from Secunia Research discovered a boundary error in the
    function separate_sentence() in file tokenize.c when processing an
    overly long word which might lead to a stack-based buffer overflow.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to parse a specially crafted
    sentence, resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the
    privileges of the user running the application. Note that this
    vulnerability may be triggered by an application using Link Grammar to
    parse sentences (e.g. AbiWord).
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Link Grammar users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/link-grammar-4.2.4-r1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5395">CVE-2007-5395</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-11-14T17:43:19Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-11-17T19:29:25Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-11-17T19:29:34Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>