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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-16707: Security patch for hunspell (ALAS-2020-1518)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-16707: Security patch for hunspell (ALAS-2020-1518)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/23/2019
Created
10/28/2020
Added
10/28/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-hunspell
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-hunspell-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-hunspell-devel

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