CVE-2018-19490

An issue was discovered in datafile.c in Gnuplot 5.2.5

published November 23, 2018

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
77.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01769 · 77.8th percentile
Published
2018-11-23T17:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 NOV 17:00Z
    An issue was discovered in datafile.c in Gnuplot 5.2.5
    cvelistv5