CVE-2018-19490

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19490
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-19490.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-19490
Related
Published
2018-11-23T17:29:00Z
Modified
2025-01-14T07:26:57.694887Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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 dfgenerateasciiarrayentry. 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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / gnuplot

Package

Name
gnuplot
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnuplot?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*

5.4.1+dfsg1-1
5.4.1+dfsg1-1+deb11u1
5.4.2+dfsg2-1
5.4.2+dfsg2-2
5.4.4+dfsg1-1
5.4.4+dfsg1-2

6.*

6.0.0+dfsg1-1
6.0.0+dfsg1-2
6.0.0+dfsg1-3
6.0.2+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / gnuplot

Package

Name
gnuplot
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnuplot?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*

5.4.4+dfsg1-2

6.*

6.0.0+dfsg1-1
6.0.0+dfsg1-2
6.0.0+dfsg1-3
6.0.2+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / gnuplot

Package

Name
gnuplot
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnuplot?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*

5.4.4+dfsg1-2

6.*

6.0.0+dfsg1-1
6.0.0+dfsg1-2
6.0.0+dfsg1-3
6.0.2+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Git / github.com/gnuplot/gnuplot

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/gnuplot/gnuplot
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
3a62a7533537cab5e409fcd64f7ddc33d8915c32

Affected versions

1.*

1.1
1.10A

2.*

2.0

3.*

3.0
3.1
3.2
3.5

4.*

4.0.2

5.*

5.2.0
5.2.1
5.2.2
5.2.3
5.2.5