CVE-2019-20433 (GCVE-0-2019-20433)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-27 14:03 – Updated: 2024-08-05 02:39
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Summary
libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a buffer over-read for a string ending with a single '\0' byte, if the encoding is set to ucs-2 or ucs-4 outside of the application, as demonstrated by the ASPELL_CONF environment variable.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2325 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txt x_refsource_MISC
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