GLSA 202409-21: Hunspell: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Hunspell: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date:	09/24/2024
Bugs:	#866093
ID:	202409-21

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Hunspell, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Background

Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird, Google Chrome.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-text/hunspell	< 1.7.1	>= 1.7.1	All supported architectures

Description

Malicious input to the hunspell spell checker could result in an application crash or other unspecified behavior.

Impact

Malicious input to the hunspell spell checker could result in an application crash or other unspecified behavior.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Hunspell users should upgrade to the latest version:

          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/hunspell-1.7.1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202409-21.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.