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USN-545-1: link-grammar vulnerability

26 November 2007

link-grammar vulnerability

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Releases

Packages

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.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart AbiWord to effect
the necessary changes.

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