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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-19492: gnuplot security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-19492: gnuplot security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/23/2018
Created
09/01/2020
Added
08/31/2020
Modified
08/31/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in cairo.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the cairotrm_options function. This flaw is caused by a missing size check of an argument passed to the "set font" function. This issue occurs when the Gnuplot pngcairo terminal is used as a backend.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-gnuplot
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-gnuplot-common

References

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