CVE-2018-19490: Buffer Overflow
First published: Fri Nov 23 2018(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| ubuntu/gnuplot | <4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1 | 4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1 |
| debian/gnuplot | <=5.4.1+dfsg1-1+deb11u1<=5.4.4+dfsg1-2<=6.0.0+dfsg1-3 | |
| Gnuplot Gnuplot | =5.2.5 | |
| Debian GNU/Linux | =8.0 | |
| openSUSE | =15.0 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2093/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2018-19490
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19490
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4541-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19490
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19490
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19490
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