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GHSA-7RH6-V5XQ-4587

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-02 00:05 – Updated: 2022-05-02 00:05

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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.

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CVE-2008-3908 (GCVE-0-2008-3908)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-04 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:53

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2326 records in the last 180 days details

References

12 references

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http://secunia.com/advisories/32184	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/wordnet.patch	x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495883/100…	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-014.html	x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.ocert.org/analysis/2008-014/analysis.txt	x_refsource_MISC
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4217	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20081…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Date Public

2008-09-01 00:00

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