Ubuntu Security Notice USN-545-1
26th November, 2007
link-grammar vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 7.10
Software description
- link-grammar
Details
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 7.10:
- liblink-grammar4 4.2.2-4ubuntu0.7.10.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart AbiWord to effect
the necessary changes.