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CVE-2023-49991

Publication date 12 December 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

Espeak-ng 1.52-dev was discovered to contain a Stack Buffer Underflow via the function CountVowelPosition at synthdata.c.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
espeak-ng 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1.51+dfsg-11ubuntu0.1
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.50+dfsg-10ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.50+dfsg-6ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of standard support
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
espeak-ng

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6858-1
    • eSpeak NG vulnerabilities
    • 1 July 2024

Other references