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Alpine: multiple aspell packages: security update to 0.60.8-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423692

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read in acommon::unescape in
 common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character. (CVE-2019-17544)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-17544

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423692

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.06

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17544

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17544