Packages
- gnuplot - A portable command-line driven graphing utility.
Details
Tim Blazytko, Cornelius Aschermann, Sergej Schumilo, and Nils Bars
discovered that Gnuplot had several memory-related issues. An
attacker could possibly use these issues to cause Gnuplot to
experience a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or
arbitrary code execution. These issues only affected Ubuntu
14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19490, CVE-2018-19491,
CVE-2018-19492)
It was discovered that Gnuplot could write out-of-bounds due to
the use of strncpy(). An attacker could possibly use this issue
to enable the execution of arbitrary code. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-25412)
It was discovered that Gnuplot incorrectly freed memory when
executing print_set_output(). An attacker could possibly use this
issue to enable the...
Tim Blazytko, Cornelius Aschermann, Sergej Schumilo, and Nils Bars
discovered that Gnuplot had several memory-related issues. An
attacker could possibly use these issues to cause Gnuplot to
experience a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or
arbitrary code execution. These issues only affected Ubuntu
14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19490, CVE-2018-19491,
CVE-2018-19492)
It was discovered that Gnuplot could write out-of-bounds due to
the use of strncpy(). An attacker could possibly use this issue
to enable the execution of arbitrary code. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-25412)
It was discovered that Gnuplot incorrectly freed memory when
executing print_set_output(). An attacker could possibly use this
issue to enable the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-25559)
It was discovered that Gnuplot's plotrequest() function contained
a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Gnuplot to crash, resulting in a denial of service or
arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2020-25969)
It was discovered that Gnuplot's boundary3d() function could be
made to divide by zero. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause Gnuplot to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2021-44917)
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 20.04 focal | gnuplot – 5.2.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | ||
| gnuplot-data – 5.2.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-nox – 5.2.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-qt – 5.2.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-x11 – 5.2.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | |||
| 18.04 bionic | gnuplot – 5.2.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1+esm1 | ||
| gnuplot-data – 5.2.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1+esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-nox – 5.2.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1+esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-qt – 5.2.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1+esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-x11 – 5.2.2+dfsg1-2ubuntu1+esm1 | |||
| 16.04 xenial | gnuplot – 4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1+esm1 | ||
| gnuplot-data – 4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1+esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-nox – 4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1+esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-qt – 4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1+esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-tex – 4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1+esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-x11 – 4.6.6-3ubuntu0.1+esm1 | |||
| 14.04 trusty | gnuplot – 4.6.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | ||
| gnuplot-nox – 4.6.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-qt – 4.6.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | |||
| gnuplot-x11 – 4.6.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | |||
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