CVE-2018-19490 (GCVE-0-2018-19490)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-11-23 17:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:37
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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