UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19492

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19492

    Published: 23 Nov 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-19492

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19492, https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2089/, https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4541-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19492, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7589-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gnuplot

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.6.4-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    4.6.3-2
    4.6.4-1
    4.6.4-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High