Critical severity9.1NVD Advisory· Published Jan 27, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-20433
CVE-2019-20433
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.
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Affected products
10- GNU/GNU Aspelldescription
- osv-coords8 versionspkg:rpm/suse/aspell&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/aspell&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/aspell&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/php53&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Point%20of%20Sale%2011%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/php53&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/php72&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Web%20and%20Scripting%2012pkg:rpm/suse/php72&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/php72&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5
< 0.60.6.1-18.8.2+ 7 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.60.6.1-18.8.2
- (no CPE)range: < 0.60.6.1-18.8.2
- (no CPE)range: < 0.60.6.1-18.8.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.17-112.79.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.17-112.79.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.5-1.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.5-1.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.5-1.37.1
Patches
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References
1- aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txtnvdVendor Advisory
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