Bug 1656179 (CVE-2018-19491)

Summary:	CVE-2018-19491 gnuplot: buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the PS_options
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	amello, fkluknav, orion, pcahyna, steve.traylen
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Bug Depends On:	1656180, 1656181
Bug Blocks:	1656186

Description Laura Pardo 2018-12-04 21:55:01 UTC

An issue was discovered in post.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the PS_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 postscript terminal is used as a backend. 


References:
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2094/ 
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/d5020716834582b20a5e12cdd49f39ee4f9dd949/

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-12-04 21:55:36 UTC

Created gnuplot tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1656181]


Created gnuplot44 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1656180]

Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2018-12-06 11:21:55 UTC

Statement:

Gnuplot allows for trivial execution of arbitrary commands from within gnuplot files by design. As such, gnuplot files should be considered as inherently dangerous and users should only execute files from trusted sources.