Unscored USN-4155-1 1 CVE

aspell vulnerability

Published Oct 15, 2019 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Aspell incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could potentially access sensitive information.

Fixed packages 3

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS	aspell	0.60.7~20110707-3ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS	aspell	0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS	aspell	0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu1+esm1

Vulnerabilities 1

Unscored —

CVE-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 v…

aspell aspell aspell Debian Ubuntu Alpine

Oct 14, 2019

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17544