An issue was discovered in datafile.c in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a heap-based buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in df_generate_ascii_array_entry. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must pass an overlong string as the right bound of the range argument that is passed to the plot function.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-11-23T17:00:00

Updated: 2020-09-28T19:06:11

Reserved: 2018-11-23T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-19490

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-11-23T17:29:00.267

Modified: 2020-09-28T20:15:12.327


Link: CVE-2018-19490

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