Package name wordnet
Date September 2nd, 2008
Advisory ID MDVSA-2008:182
Affected versions 2008.0, 2008.1

Problem Description

Rob Holland found several programming errors in WordNet which could
lead to the execution or arbitrary code when used with untrusted input
(CVE-2008-2149).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent these issues.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2008.0

 1c6a1df61fe91dda3ae4dac057401fbc  2008.0/i586/libwordnet3.0-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
 1802486553d178a0802fd0ad89b6cef6  2008.0/i586/libwordnet3.0-devel-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
 751310829f7f292fa358fe30111dff14  2008.0/i586/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm 
 719473d84e3be3fdf46333f6faa74a41  2008.0/SRPMS/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64

 5ff81320990de26154b15e56b30b51e1  2008.0/x86_64/lib64wordnet3.0-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
 99d9ad1f9abaefbf9f6acb8b31f52027  2008.0/x86_64/lib64wordnet3.0-devel-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
 b91a656c9dc2d6ec69d51ba335c78b3d  2008.0/x86_64/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm 
 719473d84e3be3fdf46333f6faa74a41  2008.0/SRPMS/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1

 70639dc3c0f6905ee668f17dc9e6d0fb  2008.1/i586/libwordnet3.0-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 abb67cb73d41e34361933e1f684b7b31  2008.1/i586/libwordnet3.0-devel-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
 365af128c071777483b61ed89b760802  2008.1/i586/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm 
 d5371cdefa639f61fc303c3804218c95  2008.1/SRPMS/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64

 14bbe9699fe4d0b6b6aa6660a22799a7  2008.1/x86_64/lib64wordnet3.0-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 45c1a11f43f3b53517b63f9a74e15a1b  2008.1/x86_64/lib64wordnet3.0-devel-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
 615b4e49a4be1edac0fc5320a46f1e9d  2008.1/x86_64/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm 
 d5371cdefa639f61fc303c3804218c95  2008.1/SRPMS/wordnet-3.0-6.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2149

Upgrade

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Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.