UBUNTU-CVE-2020-35357

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-35357

    Published: 22 Aug 2023Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-35357
    Aliases:
    USN-6472-1

    Summary:

    Details: A buffer overflow can occur when calculating the quantile value using the Statistics Library of GSL (GNU Scientific Library), versions 2.5 and 2.6. Processing a maliciously crafted input data for gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data of the library may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-35357, https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59624, https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/commit/?id=989a193268b963aa1047814f7f1402084fb7d859, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6472-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35357

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gsl

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    1.16+dfsg-4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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