Advisories » MGASA-2019-0311

Updated aspell packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Nov 2019
Modification date: 02 Nov 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-17544

Description

Updated aspell packages fix security vulnerability:

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
(CVE-2019-17544).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25640
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4155-1/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17544

SRPMS

7/core

• aspell-0.60.8-1.mga7