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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txt
Scores
CVSS v3
9.1
EPSS
0.0064
EPSS Percentile
70.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (1)
gnu/aspell
< 0.60.8
Published
Jan 27, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026