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Ubuntu: USN-4541-1 (CVE-2018-19490): Gnuplot vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4541-1 (CVE-2018-19490): Gnuplot vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/23/2018
Created
09/28/2020
Added
09/26/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnuplot
  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnuplot-data
  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnuplot-nox
  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnuplot-qt
  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnuplot-tex
  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnuplot-x11

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