CVE-2004-0548

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-08-06 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-11-28 19:06:00

Affected Software

GNU Aspell 0.50.5

0.50.5

Gentoo Linux 1.4

1.4

References

20040608 Aspell 'word-list-compress' stack overflow vulnerability

GLSA-200406-14

Vendor Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html

10497

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