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Debian: CVE-2022-39831: pspp -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2022-39831: pspp -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/05/2022
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.6.2. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This issue is different from CVE-2018-20230.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-pspp

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