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aspell — security advisory
GNU Aspell prezip-bin contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the decompressor in prog/prezip.c. The decompressor does not properly check buffer space, so a crafted compressed file can cause out-of-bounds read and write operations on the heap. An attacker who convinces a user to process a malicious compressed file with prezip-bin can trigger memory corruption, leading to a processs crash. This issue was fixed in commit 15b188437f9e0192d4ac4472ad66a4e2f62a782f which will be released in version 0.60.8.3.
- Products
- aspell
- Affected versions
- 0.60.7-3, 0.60.7~20110707-1build1, 0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu1, 0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu1+esm1, 0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu1+esm2, 0.60.7~20110707-3, 0.60.7~20110707-3build1, 0.60.7~20110707-3ubuntu0.1, 0.60.7~20110707-3ubuntu0.1+esm1, 0.60.7~20110707-4, 0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.1, 0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.2, 0.60.8-1, 0.60.8-1build1, 0.60.8-1ubuntu0.1, 0.60.8-3, 0.60.8-4, 0.60.8-4build1, 0.60.8-5, 0.60.8-6, 0.60.8.1-1, 0.60.8.1-1build1, 0.60.8.1-4, 0.60.8.1-6, 0.60.8.2-1, 0.60.8.2-3
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-75818
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 03:17 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GNU Aspell prezip-bin contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the decompressor in prog/prezip.c. The decompressor does not properly check buffer space, so a crafted compressed file can cause out-of-bounds read and write operations on the heap. An attacker who convinces a user to process a malicious compressed file with prezip-bin can trigger memory corruption, leading to a processs crash. This issue was fixed in commit 15b188437f9e0192d4ac4472ad66a4e2f62a782f which will be released in version 0.60.8.3.
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Complete source record
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