CVE-2019-20433
9.1
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.64%
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.
How to fix CVE-2019-20433
To remediate CVE-2019-20433, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/aspell—upgrade to 0.60.7-3 or later
Is CVE-2019-20433 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 0.60.7-3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |