Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.60043
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1432-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'link-grammar' package(s) announced via the DSA-1432-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'link-grammar' package(s) announced via the DSA-1432-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Alin Rad Pop discovered that link-grammar, Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for English, performed insufficient validation within its tokenizer, which could allow a malicious input file to execute arbitrary code. For the old stable distribution (sarge), this package is not present. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.2-4etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.5-1. We recommend that you upgrade your link-grammar package. Affected Software/OS: 'link-grammar' package(s) on Debian 4. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 10.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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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