CVE-2008-3908 (GCVE-0-2008-3908)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-09-04 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 09:53
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/32184
cve@mitre.org http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4217
cve@mitre.org http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200810-01.xml
cve@mitre.org http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-014.html
cve@mitre.org http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/analysis.txt
cve@mitre.org http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/wordnet.patch
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495883/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30958 Patch
cve@mitre.org https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44848
cve@mitre.org https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44849
cve@mitre.org https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44850
cve@mitre.org https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44851
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/32184
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4217
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200810-01.xml
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/analysis.txt
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/wordnet.patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495883/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30958 Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44848
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44849
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44850
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44851
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