Issued:

2012-02-20

Updated:

2012-02-20

RHBA-2011:1372 - aspell bug fix update

Synopsis

aspell bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated aspell package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Aspell is a spelling checker that features compile-time and run-time support for English as well as non-English languages and can spell check TeX, LaTeX, and HTML files.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, Aspell terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault if an empty file was checked for spelling. This bug was corrected in this update so that Aspell now works as expected. (BZ#432347)

All users of Aspell are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• aspell-devel-0.60.3-12.s390x.rpm
• aspell-devel-0.60.3-12.x86_64.rpm
• aspell-devel-0.60.3-12.ppc.rpm
• aspell-devel-0.60.3-12.ppc64.rpm
• aspell-devel-0.60.3-12.s390.rpm
• aspell-0.60.3-12.ia64.rpm
• aspell-0.60.3-12.i386.rpm
• aspell-0.60.3-12.ppc64.rpm
• aspell-0.60.3-12.x86_64.rpm
• aspell-devel-0.60.3-12.ia64.rpm
• aspell-0.60.3-12.src.rpm
• aspell-0.60.3-12.s390x.rpm
• aspell-0.60.3-12.s390.rpm
• aspell-0.60.3-12.ppc.rpm
• aspell-devel-0.60.3-12.i386.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 432347

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.