SB20191113101 - Fedora 31 update for mingw-hunspell
Published: November 13, 2019 Updated: April 25, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB20191113101
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16707)
CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring() function in suggestmgr.cxx. A remote attacker can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.