CVE-2018-20230 - An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_by

CVE-2018-20230

Summary

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660318

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:pspp:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:pspp:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	6.8 (as of 24-08-2020 - 17:37)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-787

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	MEDIUM	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
PARTIAL	PARTIAL	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

refmap via4

misc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660318

Last major update

24-08-2020 - 17:37

Published

19-12-2018 - 11:29

Last modified

24-08-2020 - 17:37