Double Free Affecting gnuplot package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-GNUPLOT-1409384
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed16 Sept 2020

Introduced: 16 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-25559  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 gnuplot.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnuplot package and not the gnuplot package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

gnuplot 5.5 is affected by double free when executing print_set_output. This may result in context-dependent arbitrary code execution.

CVSS Scores

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