PT-2019-5840
CVE-2019-16707
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Published
2019-03-14
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Updated
2026-09-18
Description by
CVSS 3.1
6.5
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Hunspell version 1.7.0
Description
The issue is related to an invalid read operation in the
SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring function of the suggestmgr.cxx component. This is a buffer overflow vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.Recommendations
For Hunspell version 1.7.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
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