Bug 2254232 (CVE-2023-49992)

Summary: CVE-2023-49992 espeak-ng: buffer overflow in RemoveEnding at dictionary.c
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A flaw was found in the espeak-ng package. A local attacker can use a specially crafted payload to trigger a buffer overflow condition, which may lead to an application crash or allow for arbitrary code execution.
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Description Robb Gatica 2023-12-12 19:53:42 UTC 
CVE-2023-49992

Espeak-ng 1.52-dev was discovered to contain a Stack Buffer Overflow via the function RemoveEnding at dictionary.c.

https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1827
Comment 2 Robb Gatica 2023-12-12 20:16:31 UTC 
Created espeak-ng tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2254240]