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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-545-1 November 26, 2007 link-grammar vulnerability CVE-2007-5395 =========================================================== 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.