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CVE-2018-19490
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-11-23T17:29:00.267 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:49:22.597

Summary

An issue was discovered in datafile.c in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a heap-based buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in df_generate_ascii_array_entry. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must pass an overlong string as the right bound of the range argument that is passed to the plot function.

Affected products

gnuplot — gnuplot

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