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Ubuntu: USN-5023-1 (CVE-2019-25051): Aspell vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5023-1 (CVE-2019-25051): Aspell vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/20/2021
Created
07/29/2021
Added
07/27/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

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).

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-aspell
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libaspell15

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