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CVE-2018-19490

Published: 23 November 2018

An 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.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
gnuplot
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
xenial
Released (4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1)
bionic Needed

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needed

trusty Needed

upstream Needs triage

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Needed

impish Ignored
(end of life)
mantic Needed

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
gnuplot5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

xenial Needed

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

impish Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H