CVE-2004-0548

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0548
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-08-06 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2016-11-28 19:06:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Gentoo Linux 1.4 All All All
Operating System Gentoo Linux 1.4 All All All
Application Gnu Aspell 0.50.5 All All All
Application Gnu Aspell 0.50.5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
'Aspell 'word-list-compress' stack overflow vulnerability' - MARC BUGTRAQ marc.info
GNU Aspell Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- aspell: Buffer overflow in word-list-compress GENTOO www.gentoo.org Vendor Advisory
Oracle Solaris Bulletin - January 2016 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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