USN-4155-2: Aspell vulnerability

21 October 2019

Aspell could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted input.

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Releases

Packages

  • aspell - GNU Aspell spell-checker

Details

USN-4155-1 fixed a vulnerability in Aspell. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 19.10.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Aspell incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could potentially access sensitive information.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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