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Fedora 31 : 12:aspell (2019-1e0f7ac968)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130477

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Rebase to upstream version 0.60.8, that fixes potential [security flaw](http://aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txt).

[ChangeLog](http://aspell.net/man-html/ChangeLog.html)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected 12:aspell package.

See Also

http://aspell.net/man-html/ChangeLog.html

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-1e0f7ac968

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130477

File Name: fedora_2019-1e0f7ac968.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2019

Updated: 11/4/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:12:aspell, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2019

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