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Re: [Aspell-user] Gentoo Advisory


From: Kevin Atkinson
Subject: Re: [Aspell-user] Gentoo Advisory
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:30:51 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Victor Tsang wrote:

> Came across this on linuxtoday.com
> 
> http://linuxtoday.com/security/2004062101226SCSW
> 
> which mention a buffer overflow in the 'word-list-compress' utility.
> 
> checking aspell main site, it doesn't seems to mention this bug nor
> provided any fixes.

No one bothered to tell me about it!

You can find the advisory here http://nettwerked.mg2.org/advisories/wlc.  
The patch they provide is bogus.

Attached is a correct fix for the problem.

-- 
http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org

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