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TITLE:
Libvoikko NULL Character Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44580

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-06-14

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Libvoikko, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) in
an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the application
when handling certain input strings via the Python and Java
interfaces and can be exploited to cause a crash via a string 
containing NULL characters.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.2.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.2.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
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