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openSUSE 15.2: 2021:1181-1 Important: Aspell Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 23, 2021
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Important patch released for openSUSE aspell, tackling buffer overflow vulnerability and reinforcing security measures.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for aspell fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2019-25051: Fixed heap-buffer-overflow in acommon:ObjStack:dup_top

(bsc#1188576).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update heap overflow openSUSE aspell

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1181=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

aspell-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

aspell-debuginfo-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

aspell-debugsource-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

aspell-devel-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

aspell-ispell-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

aspell-spell-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

libaspell15-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

libaspell15-debuginfo-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

libpspell15-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

libpspell15-debuginfo-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libaspell15-32bit-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

libaspell15-32bit-debuginfo-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

libpspell15-32bit-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

libpspell15-32bit-debuginfo-0.60.8-lp152.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-25051.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177523

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188576

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1181-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update heap overflow openSUSE aspell

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