Bug#941185: hunspell: CVE-2019-16707

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Rene,

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 01:58:21PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> forwarded 941185 https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/issues/624
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 06:37:42AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > CVE-2019-16707[0]:
> > | Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in
> > | SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx.
> > [1] https://github.com/butterflyhack/hunspell-crash
> 
> Looks like https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/issues/624

Ack, thank you for checking.

Regards,
Salvatore

Bug#941185: hunspell: CVE-2019-16707

[Rene Engelhard]

forwarded 941185 https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/issues/624
thanks

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 06:37:42AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> CVE-2019-16707[0]:
> | Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in
> | SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx.
> [1] https://github.com/butterflyhack/hunspell-crash

Looks like https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/issues/624

Regards,

Rene
> 

Bug#941185: hunspell: CVE-2019-16707

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

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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