DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19490

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

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19490

Affected packages

Debian:12 / gnuplot

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.4.0+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19490.json"

Debian:13 / gnuplot

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.4.0+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19490.json"

Debian:14 / gnuplot

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

5.4.0+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19490.json"