Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200406-14 (aspell)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200406-14. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

CVE-2004-0548

CVE-2004-0548 describes multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Aspell’s word-list-compress utility (compress.c) that allow a local user to execute arbitrary code via a long wordlist entry. The overflow is triggered when using the (1) “c” compress option or (2) “d” decompress option, due to lack...