CVE-2026-75820: GNU Aspell

Low severity, CVSS 1.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Aspell: before 0.60.8.3 (fixed in 0.60.8.3)

Published 2026-10-06. Last modified 2026-10-06.