CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-35357
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
A buffer overflow can occur when calculating the quantile value using the Statistics Library of GSL (GNU Scientific Library), versions 2.5 and 2.6. Processing a maliciously crafted input data for gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data of the library may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
Affected configurations
• gnu gnu scientific library 2.5
• gnu gnu scientific library 2.6
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/commit/?id=989a193268b963aa1047814f7f1402084fb7d859 Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00023.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59624 Patch
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/commit/?id=989a193268b963aa1047814f7f1402084fb7d859 Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00023.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00006.html lists.debian.org
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59624 Patch