Out-of-bounds Read Affecting aspell package, versions <0.60.8-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.39% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE313-ASPELL-1066680
  • published14 Oct 2019
  • disclosed14 Oct 2019

Introduced: 14 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.13 aspell to version 0.60.8-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream aspell package and not the aspell package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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