Medium
Security advisory
Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-16707
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx.
osv:CVE-2019-16707
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16707",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2019-16707",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:30.189040998Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/24NTBHK2QNYKSBMJI34WEU5MHS3H2FAI/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D2YOYFI36IWKABNGFTWXCH7TTGAFODH6/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LNTSVWI4SWBQL6XMXNGEH7EAQ45WN63G/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UD4AJ4M74VT3I6L37E4P5DNYZYBZIOVM/",
"https://github.com/butterflyhack/hunspell-crash"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 432520,
"published_at": "2019-09-23T12:15:10.33+00:00"
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