vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-5899: 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 was found in GNU PSPP 82fb509fb2fedd33e7ac0c46ca99e108bb3bdffb. Affected by this vulnerability is the function parse_variables_option of the file utilities/pspp-convert.c. The manipulation leads to free of memory not on the heap. An attack has 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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