MediumFix available
espeak-ng — security advisory
Espeak-ng 1.52-dev was discovered to contain a Stack Buffer Underflow via the function CountVowelPosition at synthdata.c.
- Products
- espeak-ng
- Affected versions
- 1.51+dfsg-10
- Fixed versions
- 1.51+dfsg-10+deb12u1, 1.51+dfsg-12
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-49991
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Espeak-ng 1.52-dev was discovered to contain a Stack Buffer Underflow via the function CountVowelPosition at synthdata.c.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-49991
espeak-ng
Fixed versions: 1.51+dfsg-10+deb12u1
espeak-ng
Fixed versions: 1.51+dfsg-12
espeak-ng
Fixed versions: 1.51+dfsg-12
Complete source record
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