CRITICAL
aspell: UCS-2 and UCS-4 null-terminated string handling OOB read
Published Jan 27, 2020
9.1
CRITICALCVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.74%
Description
libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a buffer over-read for a string ending with a single '\0' byte, if the encoding is set to ucs-2 or ucs-4 outside of the application, as demonstrated by the ASPELL_CONF environment variable.
Affected products
No data.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
aspell
Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
aspell
Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
aspell
Will not fix
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | aspell | Out of support scope | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | aspell | Will not fix | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | aspell | Will not fix | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Weaknesses (2)
References (5)
- http://aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txt x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20433 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1764299 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20433
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20433
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txt | x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20433 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1764299 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20433 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20433 |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 27, 2020
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Jan 27, 2020
Link CVE-2019-20433
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a