USN-4155-1: Aspell vulnerability

aspell vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Aspell could be made to expose sensitive information if it received
a specially crafted input.

It was discovered that Aspell incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could potentially access sensitive information.

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 general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.