1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-545-1

USN-545-1: link-grammar vulnerability

Publication date

26 November 2007

Overview

link-grammar vulnerability

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.

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

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
7.10 gutsy liblink-grammar4 –  4.2.2-4ubuntu0.7.10.1

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