CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0548

7.2 HIGH Published 2004-08-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-08-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu aspell 0.50.5 • gentoo linux 1.4

References