Buffer Overflow Affecting espeak-ng package, versions <1.50+dfsg-7+deb11u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-ESPEAKNG-6123792
  • published13 Dec 2023
  • disclosed12 Dec 2023

Introduced: 12 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-49990  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 espeak-ng to version 1.50+dfsg-7+deb11u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream espeak-ng package and not the espeak-ng package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Espeak-ng 1.52-dev was discovered to contain a buffer-overflow via the function SetUpPhonemeTable at synthdata.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1