CVE-2023-49992 (GCVE-0-2023-49992)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-12 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:20
VLAI
Summary
Espeak-ng 1.52-dev was discovered to contain a Stack Buffer Overflow via the function RemoveEnding at dictionary.c.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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