Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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Severity
7.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

objstack in GNU Aspell 0.60.8 has a heap-based buffer overflow in acommon::ObjStack::duptop (called from acommon::StringMap::add and acommon::Config::lookuplist).

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