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<glsa id="202409-21">
    <title>Hunspell: Multiple Vulnerabilities</title>
    <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Hunspell, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">hunspell</product>
    <announced>2024-09-24</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-09-24</revised>
    <bug>866093</bug>
    <access>local</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="app-text/hunspell" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">1.7.1</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">1.7.1</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox &amp; Thunderbird, Google Chrome.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>Malicious input to the hunspell spell checker could result in an application crash or other unspecified behavior.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>Malicious input to the hunspell spell checker could result in an application crash or other unspecified behavior.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Hunspell users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/hunspell-1.7.1"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-09-24T05:10:05.686745Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-09-24T05:10:05.693494Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>