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RedHat 7: RHSA-2020-3971-01 Low: Hunspell Out-Of-Bounds Issue

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical has released a minor security patch for the libxml2 library, mitigating certain risks classified as low severity.
An update for hunspell is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding.
Security Fix(es):
* hunspell: out-of-bounds read in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx (CVE-2019-16707)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat package update low out-of-bounds hunspell

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16707 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: hunspell-1.3.2-16.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: hunspell-1.3.2-16.el7.i686.rpm hunspell-1.3.2-16.el7.x86_64.rpm hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.i686.rpm hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.i686.rpm hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.x86_64.rpm hunspell-devel-1.3.2-16.el7.i686.rpm hunspell-devel-1.3.2-16.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: hunspell-1.3.2-16.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: hunspell-1.3.2-16.el7.i686.rpm hunspell-1.3.2-16.el7.x86_64.rpm hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.i686.rpm hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.i686.rpm hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.x86_64.rpm hunspell-devel-1.3.2-16.el7.i686.rpm hunspell-devel-1.3.2-16.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: hunspell-1.3.2-16.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: hunspell-1.3.2-16.el7.ppc.rpm hunspell-1.3.2-16.el7.ppc64.rpm hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.ppc.rpm hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.ppc64.rpm hunspell-devel-1.3.2-16.el7.ppc.rpm hunspell-devel-1.3.2-16.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: hunspell-1.3.2-16.el7.ppc64le.rpm hunspell-debuginfo-1.3.2-16.el7.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3971-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3971
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for hunspell is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat package update low out-of-bounds hunspell

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1771026 - CVE-2019-16707 hunspell: out-of-bounds read in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx

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