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OESA-2021-1290 (CVE-2019-17544)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2021-07-31 11:04 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:04 – Source website

Summary

aspell security update

Details

GNU Aspell is a spell checker intended to replace Ispell. It can be used as a library and spell checker. Its main feature is that it provides much better suggestions than other inspectors, including Ispell and Microsoft Word. It also has many other technical enhancements to Ispell, such as the use of shared memory to store dictionaries, and intelligent processing of personal dictionaries when multiple Aspell processes are opened at one time.

Security Fix(es):

libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character.(CVE-2019-17544)

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17544	ADVISORY

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CVE-2019-17544 (GCVE-0-2019-17544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-10-14 01:07 – Updated: 2024-08-05 01:40

Summary

libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/GNUAspell/aspell/commit/80fa26…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/GNUAspell/aspell/compare/rel-0…	x_refsource_MISC
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detai…	x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4155-1/	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4155-2/	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4948	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN

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