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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-17544

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CVE-2019-17544

aspell: stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp

Published Modified CWE 125
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Red Hat6.6CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium), Red Hat (low).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10aspell0.60.6.1-r14
alpine 3.11aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.12aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.13aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.14aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.15aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.16aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.17aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.18aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.19aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.20aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.21aspell0.60.8-r0
Show all 36 entries from 35 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10aspell0.60.6.1-r14
alpine 3.11aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.12aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.13aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.14aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.15aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.16aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.17aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.18aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.19aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.20aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.21aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.22aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.23aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.24aspell0.60.8-r0
alpine 3.7aspell0.60.6.1-r13
alpine 3.8aspell0.60.6.1-r13
alpine 3.9aspell0.60.6.1-r14
alpine edgeaspell0.60.8-r0
debian 10aspell0.60.7~20110707-6+deb10u1
debian 11aspell0.60.8-1
debian 12aspell0.60.8-1
debian 13aspell0.60.8-1
debian 14aspell0.60.8-1
debian 8aspell0.60.7~20110707-1.3+deb8u1
debian 9aspell0.60.7~20110707-3+deb9u1
echoaspell0.60.8-1
Red Hataspellno fix listed
Red Hataspell-develno fix listed
ubuntu 14.04-ESMaspell0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu1+esm1
ubuntu 16.04aspell0.60.7~20110707-3ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMaspell0.60.7~20110707-3ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 18.04aspell0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMaspell0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 19.04aspell0.60.7~20110707-6ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 19.10aspell0.60.7-3ubuntu0.1

References

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