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Fedora: 2019-074bf7d2d3 Critical: Fix Out-Of-Bounds Issue in Mingw-Hunspell

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch resolves a critical vulnerability in mingw-hunspell, improving safety for CentOS 8 users.
This update fixes CVE-2019-16707.

Summary

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program

designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or

character encoding. Hunspell interfaces: Ispell-like terminal interface using

Curses library, Ispell pipe interface, OpenOffice.org UNO module.

This is the MinGW build of Hunspell.

This update fixes CVE-2019-16707.

* Wed Nov 13 2019 Sandro Mani - 1.7.0-6

- Backport fix for CVE-2019-16707

* Tue Oct 8 2019 Sandro Mani - 1.7.0-5

- Rebuild (Changes/Mingw32GccDwarf2)

* Wed Aug 28 2019 Sandro Mani - 1.7.0-4

- Rebuild (readline)

[ 1 ] Bug #1771028 - CVE-2019-16707 mingw-hunspell: hunspell: out-of-bounds read in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1771028

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-074bf7d2d3' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 1.7.0
Release: 6.fc31
Summary: MinGW Windows spell checker and morphological analyzer library

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