FKIE_CVE-2017-9670

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-06-15 13:29 - Updated: 2025-08-14 13:29
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An uninitialized stack variable vulnerability in load_tic_series() in set.c in gnuplot 5.2.rc1 allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault and Memory Corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact when a victim opens a specially crafted file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/1933/Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/1933/Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnuplot gnuplot 5.2
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