RHSA-2022:1808 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: aspell security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · May 10, 2022
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for aspell is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
GNU Aspell is a spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker.
Security Fix(es):
- aspell: Heap-buffer-overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top (CVE-2019-25051)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.