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Gentoo: GLSA-200406-14 Normal: Aspell Buffer Overflow Threat

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An issue within Gentoo's aspell presents a potential threat of code execution stemming from vulnerabilities in the word-list-compress functionality. Users are urged to update promptly.
A bug in the aspell utility word-list-compress can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

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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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     Package          /    Vulnerable    /                  Unaffected
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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 ...
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