CVE-2018-19492

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in cairo.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the cairotrm_options function. This flaw is caused by a missing size check of an argument passed to the "set font" function. This issue occurs when the Gnuplot pngcairo terminal is used as a backend.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2089/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00066.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00035.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2089/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4541-1/

Timeline

Published: Nov 23, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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