Bug#941185: hunspell: CVE-2019-16707
Source: hunspell
Version: 1.7.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: security upstream
Hi,
The following vulnerability was published for hunspell. This is not
really a big issue, and negligigle in security tracking context, but
as it seems to have been reported just as crash in [1] it might be
worth reporting it up to upstream.
CVE-2019-16707[0]:
| Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in
| SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx.
If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.
For further information see:
[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16707
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16707
[1] https://github.com/butterflyhack/hunspell-crash
Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.
Regards,
Salvatore
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