Security Advisory

CVE-2008-3908

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-04 17:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 09:53:00

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Princeton WordNet (wn) 3.0 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long argument on the command line; a long (2) WNSEARCHDIR, (3) WNHOME, or (4) WNDBVERSION environment variable; or (5) a user-supplied dictionary (aka data file). NOTE: since WordNet itself does not run with special privileges, this issue only crosses privilege boundaries when WordNet is invoked as a third party component.

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