glsa-202402-31.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202402-31">
    <title>GNU Aspell: Heap Buffer Overflow</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in GNU Aspell which leads to a heap buffer overflow.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">aspell</product>
    <announced>2024-02-26</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-02-26</revised>
    <bug>803113</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="app-text/aspell" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">0.60.8-r3</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">0.60.8-r3</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>GNU Aspell is a popular spell-checker. Dictionaries are available for many languages.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Aspell. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>GNU Aspell has a heap-based buffer overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top (called from acommon::StringMap::add and acommon::Config::lookup_list)</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All aspell users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/aspell-0.60.8-r3"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-25051">CVE-2019-25051</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-02-26T12:30:16.027845Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-02-26T12:30:16.031079Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>