CVE-2019-20433 (NVD)

2020-01-27

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.

Products Aspell
Type Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links http://aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txt