- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1432-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                               Steve Kemp
December 16, 2007                     http://www.debian.org/security/faq
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package        : link-grammar
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2007-5395
Debian Bug     : 450695

Alin Rad Pop discovered that link-grammar, Carnegie Mellon University's
link grammar parser for English, performed insufficient validation within
its tokenizer, which could allow a malicious input file to execute
arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
4.2.2-4etch1.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this package was not present.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem was fixed in version
4.2.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your link-grammar package.


Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
- -------------------------------Source archives:

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Architecture independent packages:

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alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

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amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

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arm architecture (ARM)

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hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

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i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

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ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

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mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

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mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

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powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

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s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

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sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

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  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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