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4.5. aspell
An updated aspell package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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.
Bug Fix
- BZ#432347
- 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.
All users of Aspell are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

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