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List:       oss-security
Subject:    [oss-security] WordNet wn format string issue
From:       Tomas Hoger <thoger () redhat ! com>
Date:       2010-04-26 16:14:08
Message-ID: 20100426181408.18181340 () redhat ! com
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Hi!

Petr Pisar discovered a format string bug in wordnet while doing review
of wordnet packages in Fedora / RHEL:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585206
  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317265

We're not treating this as security issue (no good attack vector,
fortify source mitigation) and fixing it as a regular bug.  Though as
the issue can be triggered in a similar way as CVE-2008-2149, and some
vendors fixed that one as security, bringing this to attention if
anyone wants to use a different approach.

-- 
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team
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