CVE-2020-35357

medium

Description

A buffer overflow can occur when calculating the quantile value using the Statistics Library of GSL (GNU Scientific Library), versions 2.5 and 2.6. Processing a maliciously crafted input data for gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data of the library may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

References

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59624

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00006.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00023.html

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/commit/?id=989a193268b963aa1047814f7f1402084fb7d859

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-22

Updated: 2024-12-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium