CVE-2018-19492 | BDVDB-2026-109713 Detail
Description#
An issue was discovered in cairo.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the cairotrm_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 pngcairo terminal is used as a backend.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2089/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.