Mageia alert MGASA-2019-0311 (aspell)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2019-0311: Updated aspell packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sat, 2 Nov 2019 17:55:39 +0100
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MGASA-2019-0311 - Updated aspell packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Nov 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0311.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-17544

Description:
Updated aspell packages fix security vulnerability:

libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a stack-based buffer over-read
in acommon::unescape in common/getdata.cpp via an isolated \ character
(CVE-2019-17544).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25640
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4155-1/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1...

SRPMS:
- 7/core/aspell-0.60.8-1.mga7