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CVE-2019-16707

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31
• Hunspell Project Hunspell: 1.7.0

References

• https://github.com/butterflyhack/hunspell-crash
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/24NTBHK2QNYKSBMJI34WEU5MHS3H2FAI/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D2YOYFI36IWKABNGFTWXCH7TTGAFODH6/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LNTSVWI4SWBQL6XMXNGEH7EAQ45WN63G/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UD4AJ4M74VT3I6L37E4P5DNYZYBZIOVM/
• https://github.com/butterflyhack/hunspell-crash
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/24NTBHK2QNYKSBMJI34WEU5MHS3H2FAI/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D2YOYFI36IWKABNGFTWXCH7TTGAFODH6/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LNTSVWI4SWBQL6XMXNGEH7EAQ45WN63G/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UD4AJ4M74VT3I6L37E4P5DNYZYBZIOVM/

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