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CVE-2018-19492 (GCVE-0-2018-19492)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-11-23 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:37
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2018-11-23 00:00
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