Critical
Security advisory
libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-17544
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character.
osv:CVE-2019-17544
Complete source record
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