CVE-2018-19492
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.22%
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-19492
To remediate CVE-2018-19492, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 5.4.0+dfsg1-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-19492 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 5.4.0+dfsg1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |