RHSA-2026:98590 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for aspell is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

GNU Aspell is a spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker.

Security Fix(es):

• aspell: aspell: Arbitrary code execution via crafted dictionary file (CVE-2026-103658)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 10 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 10 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 10 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2550001 - CVE-2026-103658 aspell: aspell: Arbitrary code execution via crafted dictionary file

CVEs

• CVE-2026-103658

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important