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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200406-14.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200406-14">
<title>aspell: Buffer overflow in word-list-compress</title>
<synopsis>
A bug in the aspell utility word-list-compress can allow an attacker to
execute arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">aspell</product>
<announced>June 17, 2004</announced>
<revised>May 22, 2006: 03</revised>
<bug>53389</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-text/aspell" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.50.5-r4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="le">0.50.5-r3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
aspell is a popular spell-checker. Dictionaries are available for many
languages.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
aspell includes a utility for handling wordlists called
word-list-compress. This utility fails to do proper bounds checking
when processing words longer than 256 bytes.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
If an attacker could entice a user to handle a wordlist containing very
long word lengths it could result in the execution of arbitrary code
with the permissions of the user running the program.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to
upgrade to the latest available version.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All users should upgrade to the latest available version of aspell.
</p>
<code>
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv &quot;&gt;=app-text/aspell-0.50.5-r4&quot;
# emerge &quot;&gt;=app-text/aspell-0.50.5-r4&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://nettwerked.mg2.org/advisories/wlc">Nettwerked Advisory</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0548">CVE-2004-0548</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="submitter">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>