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CVE-2007-5395

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-11-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• Abiword Link Grammar: 4.2.4
• Link Grammar: 4.1b

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
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27340
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27631
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27702
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27783
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28101
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-78/advisory/
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-79/advisory/
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-27.xml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1432

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