Out-of-bounds Read Affecting aspell package, versions <0.60.7-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.74% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-ASPELL-20556942
  • published7 Oct 2026
  • disclosed27 Jan 2020

Introduced: 27 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-20433  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest aspell to version 0.60.7-3 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1