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critical 9.1

CVE-2019-17544 json

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 \ cha…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-7894

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • gnu aspell 0.60.8
  • aspell Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.60.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17544

  • aspell Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.60.7~20110707-3ubuntu0.1
  • aspell Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.1
  • aspell Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17544

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • aspell SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +4 more 0.60.6.1-18.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:3034-1

  • aspell Alpine 3.10, Alpine 3.9 0.60.6.1-r14
  • aspell Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +11 more 0.60.8-r0
  • aspell Alpine 3.8, Alpine 3.7 0.60.6.1-r13

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-17544

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-17544 updated cvss 6.6

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

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 aspell Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 aspell
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 aspell Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 aspell
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

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