GNU Aspell is a popular spell-checker. Dictionaries are available for many languages.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Aspell. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
GNU Aspell has a heap-based buffer overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top (called from acommon::StringMap::add and acommon::Config::lookup_list)
There is no known workaround at this time.
All aspell users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/aspell-0.60.8-r3"