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CVE-2026-75820

LowCVSS 1.8 / 10
Published Oct 6, 2026·Last modified Oct 7, 2026
Affected Components(3)
gnuaspell/aspell
rel-0.60.6.1
gnuaspell/aspell
rel-0.60.7-20110707
gnuaspell/aspell
rel-0.60.8.2
Description

GNU Aspell contains an integer truncation vulnerability in the WritableDict::add() function in modules/speller/default/writable.cpp. When loading a personal wordlist, the word length is stored as a single byte, causing truncation for words whose length is a multiple of 256. This leads to heap corruption. An attacker can exploit this by convincing a user to run aspell with a crafted personal wordlist containing such a word, resulting in denial of service.

This issue was fixed in commit 782ce94e4dc71eaec4ee1bd945eb3b9c47c5387d which will be released in version 0.60.8.3.

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Risk Scores
Base Score
1.8

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is difficult for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and may require special conditions. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights.

Threat Intelligence
0.2

Limited exploitation activity has been observed. Close monitoring and planned remediation are recommended.

EPSS
0.13%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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