vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2019-20433: aspell: UCS-2 and UCS-4 null-terminated string handling OOB read

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 27, 2020
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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