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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-17544: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-17544: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/14/2019
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/27/2019
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-aspell

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