Gentoo: GLSA-200406-14 Normal: Aspell Buffer Overflow Threat
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June 17, 2004
A bug in the aspell utility word-list-compress can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200406-14
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: aspell: Buffer overflow in word-list-compress
Date: June 17, 2004
Bugs: #53389
ID: 200406-14
Synopsis
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A bug in the aspell utility word-list-compress can allow an attacker to
execute arbitrary code.
Background
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aspell is a popular spell-checker. Dictionaries are available for many
languages.
Affected packages
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1 app-text/aspell <= 0.50.5-r1 >= 0.50.5-r2
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aspell includes a utility for handling wordlists called
word-list-compress. This utility fails to do proper ...Read the Full Advisory
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