Name: CVE-2018-20230: Out-of-bounds Write
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-12-19T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-20230, CWE-787, CVSS 7.8, EPSS 0.00811

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade pspp	Jul 30, 2024	Dec 19, 2018
Suse	—	Upgrade libspread-sheet-widget0Upgrade spread-sheet-widget-develUpgrade psppUpgrade pspp-devel	Feb 19, 2019	Dec 19, 2018
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Dec 19, 2018

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CVSS Details

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