CVE-2019-20433

aspell: UCS-2 and UCS-4 null-terminated string handling OOB read

Published Jan 27, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 9.1 Critical EPSS 1.7% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-10981 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 2:39 AM
Reserved
Jan 27, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 27, 2020, 3:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:30 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Aug 17, 2019, 12:00 AM