Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnuplot  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-GNUPLOT-579308
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed23 Nov 2018

Introduced: 23 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19491  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in post.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the PS_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 postscript terminal is used as a backend.