gnuplot 5.5 is affected by double free when executing print_set_output. This may result in context-dependent arbitrary code execution.

An update of the gnuplot package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - gnuplot: double free when executing print_set_output may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2020-25559)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - gnuplot: double free when executing print_set_output may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2020-25559)

  - A Divide by Zero vulnerability exists in gnuplot 5.4 in the boundary3d function in graph3d.c, which could     cause a Arithmetic exception and application crash. (CVE-2021-44917)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This update for gnuplot fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2020-25559: Fixed double free when executing     print_set_output() (bsc#1176689).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for gnuplot fixes the following issues :

CVE-2020-25559: Fixed double free when executing print_set_output() (bsc#1176689).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the gnuplot packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - gnuplot 5.5 is affected by double free when executing     print_set_output. This may result in context-dependent     arbitrary code execution.(CVE-2020-25559)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
204359	Photon OS 4.0: Gnuplot PHSA-2023-4.0-0428	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
203969	Photon OS 3.0: Gnuplot PHSA-2023-3.0-0578	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
198732	RHEL 7 : gnuplot (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
198730	RHEL 8 : gnuplot (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
146908	openSUSE Security Update : gnuplot (openSUSE-2021-345)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
146795	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : gnuplot (SUSE-SU-2021:0549-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
146705	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : gnuplot (EulerOS-SA-2021-1302)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
146190	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gnuplot (EulerOS-SA-2021-1194)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
145160	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : gnuplot (EulerOS-SA-2021-1072)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2020-25559

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