CVE-2019-20433 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2019-20433 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.64% · 70.5th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.64%

70.5th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS	aspell	0.60.7~20110707-3ubuntu0.1, 0.60.7~20110707-3build1, 0.60.7~20110707-3
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS	aspell	0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu1+esm1, 0, 0.60.7~20110707-1build1
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	aspell	0, 0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.2, 0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.1

Timeline

Jan 27, 2020 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 22, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-20433 third-party-advisory
http://aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txt third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-20433 third-party-advisory

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