CVE-2025-31177

Publication date 7 May 2025

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

gnuplot is affected by a heap buffer overflow at function utf8_copy_one.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gnuplot	25.04 plucky	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2025-06-19]
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable, fix deferred

Notes

ebarretto

From Debian: No security impact, gnuplot can execute arbitrary commands and need to come from a trusted source, see README.Debian.security (added in 5.2.6).

bruce-cable

As of 2025-06-13 no patch available

john-breton

As of 2025-06-19, no patch exists

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.2 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H