Summary
Tim Blazytko, Cornelius Aschermann, Sergej Schumilo, and Nils Bars
discovered that Gnuplot had several memory-related issues. An
attacker could possibly use these issues to cause Gnuplot to
experience a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or
arbitrary code execution. These issues only affected Ubuntu
14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19490, CVE-2018-19491,
CVE-2018-19492)
It was discovered that Gnuplot could write out-of-bounds due to
the use of strncpy(). An attacker could possibly use this issue
to enable the execution of arbitrary code. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-25412)
It was discovered that Gnuplot incorrectly freed memory when
executing print_set_output(). An attacker could possibly use this
issue to enable the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-25559)
It was discovered that Gnuplot's plotrequest() function contained
a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Gnuplot to crash, resulting in a denial of service or
arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2020-25969)
It was discovered that Gnuplot's boundary3d() function could be
made to divide by zero. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause Gnuplot to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2021-44917)
Fixed packages 4
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS | gnuplot | 4.6.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 |
| Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS | gnuplot | 4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1+esm1 |
| Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS | gnuplot | 5.2.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1+esm1 |
| Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS | gnuplot | 5.2.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 |
Vulnerabilities 7
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Unscored —
An issue was discovered in datafile.c in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a heap-based buffer ov…
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An issue was discovered in post.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with a…
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An issue was discovered in cairo.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with …
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com_line() in command.c in gnuplot 5.4 leads to an out-of-bounds-write from strncpy() that may lead to arbitrary code e…
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gnuplot 5.5 is affected by double free when executing print_set_output. This may result in context-dependent arbitrary …
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Unscored —
gnuplot v5.5 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the function plotrequest().
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Unscored —
A Divide by Zero vulnerability exists in gnuplot 5.4 in the boundary3d function in graph3d.c, which could cause a Arith…
References
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19490
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19491
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19492
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-25412
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-25559
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-25969
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-44917