CVE-2008-3908

Description

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44851

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44850

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44849

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44848

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30958

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495883/100/0/threaded

http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/wordnet.patch

http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/analysis.txt

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-014.html

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200810-01.xml

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4217

http://secunia.com/advisories/32184

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3