Out-of-Bounds Affecting aspell-devel package, versions <12:0.60.6.1-22.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-ASPELLDEVEL-4264826
  • published31 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Jul 2021

Introduced: 20 Jul 2021

CVE-2019-25051  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 aspell-devel to version 12:0.60.6.1-22.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:1808.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream aspell-devel package and not the aspell-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

objstack in GNU Aspell 0.60.8 has a heap-based buffer overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top (called from acommon::StringMap::add and acommon::Config::lookup_list).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1