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Ubuntu 23.10: USN-6858-1 Critical: eSpeak NG Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in eSpeak NG for Ubuntu, along with detailed guidance for patching these issues.
Several security issues were fixed in eSpeak NG.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 23.10 - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in eSpeak NG. Software Description: - espeak-ng: Multi-lingual software speech synthesizer Details: It was discovered that eSpeak NG did not properly manage memory under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-49990, CVE-2023-49991, CVE-2023-49992, CVE-2023-49993, CVE-2023-49994)

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security advisory denial of service memory management ubuntu eSpeak NG

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 23.10 espeak-ng 1.51+dfsg-11ubuntu0.1 espeak-ng-espeak 1.51+dfsg-11ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS espeak-ng 1.50+dfsg-10ubuntu0.1 espeak-ng-espeak 1.50+dfsg-10ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS espeak-ng 1.50+dfsg-6ubuntu0.1 espeak-ng-espeak 1.50+dfsg-6ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS espeak-ng 1.49.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro espeak-ng-espeak 1.49.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6858-1

CVE-2023-49990, CVE-2023-49991, CVE-2023-49992, CVE-2023-49993,

CVE-2023-49994

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6858-1

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security advisory denial of service memory management ubuntu eSpeak NG

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/espeak-ng/1.51+dfsg-11ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/espeak-ng/1.50+dfsg-10ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/espeak-ng/1.50+dfsg-6ubuntu0.1

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