CVE-2022-39831

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2022-09-05

Last modified

2024-08-03

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Pspp (Gnu)

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OECANCPD4WSSBJLSC3EE47…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VQKWIVW5WJ5ZQNNQFRKTRK…
• https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62977