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Debian 11 bullseye DLA-4198-1 critical: espeak-ng buffer overflow

debian lts
Calendar Grey May 31, 2025
Dist Debian Esm H88
Major patch for espeak-ng addresses several memory corruption vulnerabilities, enhancing safety and performance for Ubuntu environments.
Several issues have been found in espeak-ng, a Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer
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Summary

Several issues have been found in espeak-ng, a Multi-lingual software
speech synthesizer.
The issues are related to buffer overflow or underflow in several
functions and a floating point exception.


For Debian 11 bullseye, these problems have been fixed in version
1.50+dfsg-7+deb11u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your espeak-ng packages.

For the detailed security status of espeak-ng please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/espeak-ng

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequen


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Package: espeak-ng
Version: 1.50+dfsg-7+deb11u2
CVE ID: CVE-2023-49990 CVE-2023-49991 CVE-2023-49992

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