CVE-2026-75818

GNU Aspell prezip-bin contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the decompressor in prog/prezip.c. The decompressor does not properly check buffer space, so a crafted compressed file can cause out-of-bounds read and write operations on the heap. An attacker who convinces a user to process a malicious compressed file with prezip-bin can trigger memory corruption, leading to a processs crash. This issue was fixed in commit 15b188437f9e0192d4ac4472ad66a4e2f62a782f which will be released in version 0.60.8.3.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
http://aspell.net/
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/10/CVE-2026-75818

Configurations

No configuration.

History

06 Oct 2026, 11:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-10-06 11:17

Updated : 2026-10-06 15:03

NVD link : CVE-2026-75818

Mitre link : CVE-2026-75818

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-75818

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-122

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

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