Security Advisory

CVE-2019-20433

9.1
CRITICAL

Vulnerability Description

libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a buffer over-read for a string ending with a single '\0' byte, if the encoding is set to ucs-2 or ucs-4 outside of the application, as demonstrated by the ASPELL_CONF environment variable.
Published Date January 27, 2020
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory