CVE-2018-20230

published 2018-12-19

CVE-2018-20230: An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows…

Priority P4 28 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR N UI R S U C H I H A H

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Affected

13 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	pspp	< pspp 1.2.0-3 (bookworm)	pspp 1.2.0-3 (bookworm)
debian	pspp	< pspp 1.6.2-2 (bookworm)	pspp 1.6.2-2 (bookworm)
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
gnu	pspp	—	—
gnu	pspp	—	—
gnu	pspp	>= 0 < 1.2.0-3	1.2.0-3
gnu	pspp	>= 0 < 1.6.2-2	1.6.2-2
gnu	pspp	>= 0 < 1.2.0-3	1.2.0-3
gnu	pspp	>= 0 < 1.6.2-2	1.6.2-2
gnu	pspp	>= 0 < 1.2.0-3	1.2.0-3
gnu	pspp	>= 0 < 1.6.2-2	1.6.2-2
gnu	pspp	>= 0 < 1.2.0-3	1.2.0-3

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 7.8 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.8 HIGH

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