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OESA-2023-1432 (CVE-2020-25969)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-07-15 11:05 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:05 – Source website

Summary

gnuplot security update

Details

Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. The source code is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively, but has grown to support many non-interactive uses such as web scripting. It is also used as a plotting engine by third-party applications like Octave. Gnuplot has been supported and under active development since 1986.

Security Fix(es):

gnuplot v5.5 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the function plotrequest().(CVE-2020-25969)

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25969	ADVISORY

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CVE-2020-25969 (GCVE-0-2020-25969)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-05 00:00 – Updated: 2024-11-25 16:05

Summary

gnuplot v5.5 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the function plotrequest().

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-11-25 16:05 UTC

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2311/

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