CVE-2007-5395
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 7.0%EU EUVD
Stack-based buffer overflow in the separate_word function in tokenize.c in Link Grammar 4.1b and possibly other versions, as used in AbiWord Link Grammar 4.2.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long word, as reachable through the separate_sentence function.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 7.0% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5371)
- Published
- November 8, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5371 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- abiword / abiword link grammar
- link grammar / link grammar
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450695
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196803
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27300(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27340(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27631(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27702(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27783(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28101(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-78/advisory/(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-79/advisory/(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-27.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1432
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483368/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483370/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26365
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-545-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3770
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3771
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371221
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38317
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00411.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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