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CVE-2018-20230

Published: 19 December 2018

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
pspp
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needed

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Does not exist

groovy Not vulnerable
(1.2.0-5)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(1.2.0-5)
impish Not vulnerable
(1.2.0-5)
jammy Not vulnerable
(1.2.0-5)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(1.2.0-5)
lunar Not vulnerable
(1.2.0-5)
mantic Not vulnerable
(1.2.0-5)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needs-triage)
upstream
Released (1.2.0-3)
xenial Needed

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H