CVE-2023-49990 - OpenCVE

Espeak-ng 1.52-dev was discovered to contain a buffer-overflow via the function SetUpPhonemeTable at synthdata.c.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Espeak-ng	Espeak-ng

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:espeak-ng:espeak-ng:1.52:dev:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1824
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00050.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2PZEBWPNKPAYJMIM3AS2RP3FL6FX3HS4/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z5WW6RKHRWLEMCKCQ6UZCXWC5J7UWMUQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2PZEBWPNKPAYJMIM3AS2RP3FL6FX3HS4/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/Z5WW6RKHRWLEMCKCQ6UZCXWC5J7UWMUQ/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49990
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49990

History

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:30:00 +0000

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Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:30:00 +0000

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References		https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00050.html

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:15:00 +0000

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Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-12-12T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:20:18.965Z

Reserved: 2023-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-49990

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:20:18.965Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-12T14:15:07.553

Modified: 2025-11-04T19:16:12.663

Link: CVE-2023-49990

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-12-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-49990 - Bugzilla

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