Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-19490
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 50.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 6.8
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2093/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2093/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/