CVE-2018-19490

Summary

CVECVE-2018-19490
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-11-23 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-28 20:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in datafile.c in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a heap-based buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in df_generate_ascii_array_entry. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must pass an overlong string as the right bound of the range argument that is passed to the plot function.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Gnuplot Gnuplot 5.2.5 All All All
Application Gnuplot Gnuplot 5.2.5 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
gnuplot / gnuplot-main / Commit [d50207] MISC sourceforge.net Patch, Third Party Advisory
gnuplot / Bugs / #2093 Buffer overflow in plot range option MISC sourceforge.net Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1216-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1597-1] gnuplot security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1595-1] gnuplot5 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
USN-4541-1: Gnuplot vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296065 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 39.107.1 Missing (CPUOCT2021)
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