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Mageia 8: 2021-0388 Moderate: Aspell Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The newly released packages of aspell for Mageia resolve a critical heap overflow vulnerability linked to CVE-2019-25051, which became available on July 28, 2021.
objstack in GNU Aspell 0.60.8 has a heap-based buffer overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top (called from acommon::StringMap::add and acommon::Config::lookup_list) (CVE-2019-25051)

Summary

objstack in GNU Aspell 0.60.8 has a heap-based buffer overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top (called from acommon::StringMap::add and acommon::Config::lookup_list) (CVE-2019-25051).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29294

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5023-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-25051

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow security fix heap-based flaw aspell mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/aspell-0.60.8-4.1.mga8

Publication date: 28 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0388.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-25051

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow security fix heap-based flaw aspell mageia

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