Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pspp  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-PSPP-617719
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed18 Aug 2017

Introduced: 18 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12959  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pspp package and not the pspp package as distributed by Ubuntu.

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function dict_add_mrset() in data/dictionary.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP before 1.0.1 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.