libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - aspell: UCS-2 and UCS-4 null-terminated string handling OOB read (CVE-2019-20433)

  - libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in     common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character. (CVE-2019-17544)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - aspell: UCS-2 and UCS-4 null-terminated string handling OOB read (CVE-2019-20433)

  - libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in     common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character. (CVE-2019-17544)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-4948 advisory.

  - libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in     common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character. (CVE-2019-17544)

  - objstack in GNU Aspell 0.60.8 has a heap-based buffer overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top (called from     acommon::StringMap::add and acommon::Config::lookup_list). (CVE-2019-25051)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for aspell fixes the following issues :

CVE-2019-17544: Fixed a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon:unescape in common/getdata.cpp via an isolated backslash (bsc#1153892).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

USN-4155-1 fixed a vulnerability in Aspell. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 19.10.

It was discovered that Aspell incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could potentially access sensitive information.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that Aspell, the GNU spell checker, incorrectly handled certain inputs which leads to a stack-based buffer over-read.
An attacker could potentially access sensitive information.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 0.60.7~20110707-1.3+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your aspell packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4155-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Aspell incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could potentially access     sensitive information.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199920	RHEL 8 : aspell (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
199839	RHEL 7 : aspell (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195772	RHEL 6 : aspell (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195760	RHEL 5 : aspell (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
152169	Debian DSA-4948-1 : aspell - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
131224	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : aspell (SUSE-SU-2019:3034-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
130146	Ubuntu 19.10 : Aspell vulnerability (USN-4155-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
130072	Debian DLA-1966-1 : aspell security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
129967	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Aspell vulnerability (USN-4155-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

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