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CVE-2018-19491

Published: 23 November 2018

An issue was discovered in post.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the PS_options function. This flaw is caused by a missing size check of an argument passed to the "set font" function. This issue occurs when the Gnuplot postscript terminal is used as a backend.

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

impish Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needed

trusty Needed

upstream Needs triage

mantic Needed

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

hirsute Does not exist

xenial Needed

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

impish Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

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