CVE-2004-0548: Gentoo Linux
High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the word-list-compress functionality in compress.c for Aspell allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a long entry in the wordlist that is not properly handled when using the (1) "c" compress option or (2) "d" decompress option.
Affected products
Published 2004-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.