Out-of-bounds Write Affecting gnuplot package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNUPLOT-2380787
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19490  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for gnuplot.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. 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.

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