CVE-2004-0548

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

gentoo Linux: 1.4
GNU Aspell: 0.50.5

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108675120224531&w=2
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-14.xml
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10497
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108675120224531&w=2
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-14.xml
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10497

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