GLSA-202409-21 : Hunspell: Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 207668

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202409-21 (Hunspell: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Malicious input to the hunspell spell checker could result in an application crash or other unspecified behavior.

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

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

Solution

All Hunspell users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-text/hunspell-1.7.1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207668

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202409-21.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 9/24/2024

Updated: 9/24/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:hunspell, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2024

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