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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2093/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2093/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/
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