CVE-2017-9670 — Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Gnuplot

CWE-824 — Access of Uninitialized PointerCWE-456 — Missing Initialization of a Variable6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 56.79%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
GnuplotDebian Gnuplot
Timeline
PublishedJun 15
Latest updateMay 17

Description

An uninitialized stack variable vulnerability in load_tic_series() in set.c in gnuplot 5.2.rc1 allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault and Memory Corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact when a victim opens a specially crafted file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/gnuplot< gnuplot 5.0.5+dfsg1-7 (bookworm)
▶Debiangnuplot/gnuplot< 5.0.5+dfsg1-7+3

Patches

Patch: sourceforge.net ↗Patch: sourceforge.net ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5w62-j643-gj5x: An uninitialized stack variable vulnerability in load_tic_series() in set↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2017-9670: An uninitialized stack variable vulnerability in load_tic_series() in set↗2017-06-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
gnuplot: Uninitialized stack variable in load_tic_series()↗2017-06-15
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Debian
CVE-2017-9670: gnuplot - An uninitialized stack variable vulnerability in load_tic_series() in set.c in g...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9670 gnuplot: Uninitialized stack variable in load_tic_series()↗2017-06-16
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