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CVE-2018-19491

N/A
Published: November 23, 2018 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:49 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxLeapGnuplot

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

An issue was discovered in post.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the PS_options function. This flaw is caused by a missing size check of an argument passed to the "set font" function. This issue occurs when the Gnuplot postscript terminal is used as a backend.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (6)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.html
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2094/
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/

CVSS

6.8MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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