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Mageia 7 Security Advisory: MGASA-2019-0421 Critical Hunspell Fix

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Calendar Grey December 31, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised hunspell updates resolve a vulnerability related to improper memory access in Mageia, bolstering system protection.
Updated hunspell packages fix security vulnerability: Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx (CVE-2019-16707)

Summary

Updated hunspell packages fix security vulnerability:
Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx (CVE-2019-16707).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25963

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/UD4AJ4M74VT3I6L37E4P5DNYZYBZIOVM/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16707

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/hunspell-1.7.0-1.1.mga7

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Publication date: 31 Dec 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0421.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-16707

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