CVSS 3.1
9.1 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HCVE-2019-17544
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-125
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- gnu:aspell
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16109
- https://github.com/GNUAspell/aspell/commit/80fa26c74279fced8d778351cff19d1d8f44fe4e
- https://github.com/GNUAspell/aspell/compare/rel-0.60.7...rel-0.60.8
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00027.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00021.html