CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-19490
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
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.
Affected configurations
• gnuplot gnuplot 5.2.5
• debian debian linux 8.0
• opensuse leap 15.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2093/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2093/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/ usn.ubuntu.com