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Fedora 30 : 12:aspell (2019-73919e71f8)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130787

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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-2019-73919e71f8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130787

File Name: fedora_2019-73919e71f8.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2019

Updated: 11/12/2019

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:12:aspell, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2019

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