Out-of-bounds Read Affecting aspell package, versions [,0.60.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ASPELL-2368342
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jan 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade aspell to version 0.60.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read 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.

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CVSS Base Scores

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