[gentoo-announce] ERRATA: [ GLSA 200406-14 ] aspell: Buffer overflow in word-list-compress

[gentoo-announce] ERRATA: [ GLSA 200406-14 ] aspell: Buffer overflow in word-list-compress

[Kurt Lieber]

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  Severity: Normal
     Title: aspell: Buffer overflow in word-list-compress
      Date: August 23, 2004
      Bugs: #53389
        ID: 200406-14:02

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Errata
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The previous security patch intended to fix this vulnerability was apparently
incorrect in that it counted the words rather than characters. This revision
fixes that. This was brought to our attention by by Ludwig Nussel
<ludwig.nussel@suse.de>


Affected packages
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     Package          /   Vulnerable   /                    Unaffected
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  1  app-text/aspell     <= 0.50.5-r3                     >= 0.50.5-r4


Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-14.xml

Concerns?
=========

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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
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The contents of this document are licensed under the
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