Vigil@nce - Gnuplot: memory corruption via load_tic_series
August 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 18/06/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a memory corruption via load_tic_series()
of Gnuplot, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly
to run code.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Gnuplot-memory-corruption-via-load-tic-series-32575