CVE-2020-35357

Summary

CVECVE-2020-35357
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-22 19:16:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-11 16:12:00 UTC
DescriptionA buffer overflow can occur when calculating the quantile value using the Statistics Library of GSL (GNU Scientific Library), versions 2.5 and 2.6. Processing a maliciously crafted input data for gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data of the library may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnu Scientific Library 2.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gnu Scientific Library 2.6 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GNU Scientific Library - Bugs: bug #59624, Buffer overflow in... [Savannah] MISC savannah.gnu.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3576-1] gsl security update MLIST lists.debian.org
gsl.git - GNU Scientific Library MISC git.savannah.gnu.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199911 Ubuntu Security Notification for GNU Scientific Library Vulnerability (USN-6472-1)
  • 356109 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for gsl : ALAS2023-2023-353
  • 356149 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for gsl : ALAS2-2023-2255
  • 356360 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for gsl : ALAS-2023-1851
  • 6000072 Debian Security Update for gsl (DLA 3576-1)
  • 754986 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for gsl (SUSE-SU-2023:3858-1)
  • 755073 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for gsl (SUSE-SU-2023:4051-1)

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