CVE-2019-17544

Publication date 14 October 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
aspell	19.10 eoan	Fixed 0.60.7-3ubuntu0.1
	19.04 disco	Fixed 0.60.7~20110707-6ubuntu0.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.60.7~20110707-3ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu1+esm1

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.1 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVE-2019-17544

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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