CVE - CVE-2008-3908

CVE-ID
CVE-2008-3908	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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
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BID:30958 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30958 BUGTRAQ:20080901 [oCERT-2008-014] WordNet stack and heap overflows URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495883/100/0/threaded GENTOO:GLSA-200810-01 URL:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200810-01.xml MISC:http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-014.html MISC:http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/analysis.txt MISC:http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/wordnet.patch SECUNIA:32184 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/32184 SREASON:4217 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4217 XF:wordnet-binsrch-search-bo(44851) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44851 XF:wordnet-morph-search-bo(44848) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44848 XF:wordnet-morphinit-bo(44849) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44849 XF:wordnet-wninit-bo(44850) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44850
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20080904	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20080904)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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