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aspell — security advisory
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the word-list-compress functionality in compress.c for Aspell allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a long entry in the wordlist that is not properly handled when using the (1) "c" compress option or (2) "d" decompress option.
- Products
- aspell
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.50.5-3
- CVEs
- CVE-2004-0548
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the word-list-compress functionality in compress.c for Aspell allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a long entry in the wordlist that is not properly handled when using the (1) "c" compress option or (2) "d" decompress option.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0548
aspell
Fixed versions: 0.50.5-3
aspell
Fixed versions: 0.50.5-3
aspell
Fixed versions: 0.50.5-3
Complete source record
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