USN-4155-1: Aspell vulnerability
USN-4155-1: Aspell vulnerability aspell vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary Aspell could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted input. Software Description aspell – GNU Aspell spell-checker Details It was discovered that Aspell incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could potentially access sensitive information. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 aspell – 0.60.7~20110707-6ubuntu0.1 libaspell15 – 0.60.7~20110707-6ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS aspell – 0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.1 libaspell15 – 0.60.7~20110707-4ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS aspell – 0.60.7~20110707-3ubuntu0.1 libaspell15 – 0.60.7~20110707-3ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 14.04 ESM aspell – 0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu1+esm1 libaspell15 – 0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu1+esm1 Ubuntu 12.04 ESM aspell – 0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu0.1 libaspell15 – 0.60.7~20110707-1ubuntu0.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In [ more… ]