CVE-2004-0548

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0548
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-08-06 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 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

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
'Aspell 'word-list-compress' stack overflow vulnerability' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
GNU Aspell Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Oracle Solaris Bulletin - January 2016 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- aspell: Buffer overflow in word-list-compress af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org Vendor Advisory
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