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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2022-1808-01, Moderate Aspell Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A recent update for aspell resolves a notable security vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, specifically addressing a critical heap overflow flaw.
An update for aspell is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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

GNU Aspell is a spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker.
Security Fix(es):
* aspell: Heap-buffer-overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top (CVE-2019-25051)
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 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity heap overflow aspell

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-25051 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: aspell-0.60.6.1-22.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: aspell-0.60.6.1-22.el8.aarch64.rpm aspell-debuginfo-0.60.6.1-22.el8.aarch64.rpm aspell-debugsource-0.60.6.1-22.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: aspell-0.60.6.1-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm aspell-debuginfo-0.60.6.1-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm aspell-debugsource-0.60.6.1-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: aspell-0.60.6.1-22.el8.s390x.rpm aspell-debuginfo-0.60.6.1-22.el8.s390x.rpm aspell-debugsource-0.60.6.1-22.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: aspell-0.60.6.1-22.el8.i686.rpm aspell-0.60.6.1-22.el8.x86_64.rpm aspell-debuginfo-0.60.6.1-22.el8.i686.rpm aspell-debuginfo-0.60.6.1-22.el8.x86_64.rpm aspell-debugsource-0.60.6.1-22.el8.i686.rpm aspell-debugsource-0.60.6.1-22.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
aarch64: aspell-debuginfo-0.60.6.1-22.el8.aarch64.rpm aspell-debugsource-0.60.6.1-22.el8.aarch64.rpm aspell-devel-0.60.6.1-22.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: aspell-debuginfo-0.60.6.1-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm aspell-debugsource-0.60.6.1-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm aspell-devel-0.60.6.1-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: aspell-debuginfo-0.60.6.1-22.el8.s390x.rpm aspell-debugsource-0.60.6.1-22.el8.s390x.rpm aspell-devel-0.60.6.1-22.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: aspell-debuginfo-0.60.6.1-22.el8.i686.rpm aspell-debuginfo-0.60.6.1-22.el8.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1808-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1808
Issue date: 2022-05-10

Topic

An update for aspell is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity heap overflow aspell

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1984066 - CVE-2019-25051 aspell: Heap-buffer-overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top

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