On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:31:47AM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:20:28AM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 04:33:40PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > >
> > > > See 
> > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-announce/2019-08/msg00000.html
> > >
> > > > Within Debian the "pumpa" will need an update. Others might be
> > > > required as well. Kevin Atkinson might be up for help if needed.
> > > Also see http://aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txt for a slightly improved
> > > version of the announcement that I edited for clarity.
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > This message is sent to all packages that depend in some way on
> > libaspell15 (pdo addresses bcc'ed)
> > 
> > A potentially unbounded buffer over-read has been found in in GNU
> > Aspell 0.60.*. Package aspell 0.60.7-1 has been uploaded to Debian
> > experimental, including upstream patch to deal with this problem.
> > 
> > Unfortunately this fix may break applications that use null-terminated
> > UCS-2 or UCS-4 strings with the C API.  These applications will need
> > to be fixed to make use of the new more secure API in order to
> > continue to have a functional spell checker.
> 
> This is the list of non aspell packages depending on libaspell15 which
> are possibly affected (maintainers bcc'ed),
> 
>  eiskaltdcpp-qt
>  enchant
>  gnustep-gui-runtime
>  inkscape
>  kdelibs5-plugins
>  libenchant1c2a
>  libenchant2
>  libenchant-voikko
>  librcc0
>  libtext-aspell-perl
>  mcabber
>  php7.3-pspell
>  pumpa
>  raspell
>  sonnet-plugins
>  tea
>  weechat-plugins
>  xmlcopyeditor
>  yagf
> 
> -- 
> Agustin

Hi Agustin,

WeeChat aspell plugin uses only UTF-8 strings for Aspell and should therefore
not be affected by these changes.

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Sébastien Helleu

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