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CVE-2018-19490

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Overview

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.

Related Files

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4541-1
Posted Sep 28, 2020
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 4541-1 - Tim Blazytko, Cornelius Aschermann, Sergej Schumilo and Nils Bars discovered that Gnuplot did not properly validate string sizes in the df_generate_ascii_array_entry function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a heap buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service attack or arbitrary code execution. Tim Blazytko, Cornelius Aschermann, Sergej Schumilo and Nils Bars discovered that Gnuplot did not properly validate string sizes in the PS_options function when the Gnuplot postscript terminal is used as a backend. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service attack or arbitrary code execution. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, overflow, arbitrary, code execution
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2018-19490, CVE-2018-19491, CVE-2018-19492
SHA-256 | 4899b4998d8b6562ca856bc69ea8c153af0da3e8f57eaaaccfe87ed18a8c695a
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