Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.59644
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-545-1 (link-grammar)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to link-grammar announced via advisory USN-545-1. =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 7.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 7.10: liblink-grammar4 4.2.2-4ubuntu0.7.10.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to restart AbiWord to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Alin Rad Pop discovered that AbiWord's Link Grammar parser did not correctly handle overly-long words. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, AbiWord, or other applications using Link Grammar, could be made to crash. Solution: http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-545-1 Risk factor : Critical CVSS Score: 10.0
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-5395 BugTraq ID: 26365 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26365 Bugtraq: 20071107 Secunia Research: AbiWord Link Grammar "separate_sentence()"Buffer Overflow (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483370/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20071107 Secunia Research: Link Grammar "separate_sentence()" BufferOverflow (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483368/100/0/threaded Debian Security Information: DSA-1432 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1432 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00411.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-27.xml http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-78/advisory/ http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-79/advisory/ http://secunia.com/advisories/27300 http://secunia.com/advisories/27340 http://secunia.com/advisories/27631 http://secunia.com/advisories/27702 http://secunia.com/advisories/27783 http://secunia.com/advisories/28101 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-545-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3770 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3771 XForce ISS Database: abiword-linkgrammar-sentence-bo(38317) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38317
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