SB2019102003 - Denial of service in GNU Aspell
Published: October 20, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019102003
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17544)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when processing an isolated character within the acommon::unescape() function in common/getdata.cpp file in GNU Aspell. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted Excel file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or crash the application.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.