VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-20230

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.81%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-12-19
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. 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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references