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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
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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

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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Topics Covered

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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Topics Covered

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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