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Debian: CVE-2025-5898: pspp -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 9, 2025
Added
Jun 12, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in GNU PSPP 82fb509fb2fedd33e7ac0c46ca99e108bb3bdffb. Affected is the function parse_variables_option of the file utilities/pspp-convert.c. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds write. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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