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Re: [Aspell-user] Gentoo Advisory
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Brian Nelson |
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Re: [Aspell-user] Gentoo Advisory |
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Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:11:10 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Victor Tsang <address@hidden> writes:
> Came across this on linuxtoday.com
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> http://linuxtoday.com/security/2004062101226SCSW
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> which mention a buffer overflow in the 'word-list-compress' utility.
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> checking aspell main site, it doesn't seems to mention this bug nor
> provided any fixes.
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> I'm running 0.50 compiled from source, should I worry for this advisory?
It's not really a risk unless you're running word-list-compress on an
untrusted word list.
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