Vigil@nce - PSPP: buffer overflow via read_bytes_internal
April 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on service,
denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 18/02/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow via
read_bytes_internal() of PSPP, in order to trigger a denial of
service, and possibly to run code.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/PSPP-buffer-overflow-via-read-bytes-internal-28531