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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 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.

  - gsl: Stack buffer overflow in gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data (CVE-2020-35357)

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 9 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.

  - gsl: Stack buffer overflow in gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data (CVE-2020-35357)

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

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 ESM / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6472-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GNU Scientific Library incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an     automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:4051-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2020-35357)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of gsl installed on the remote host is prior to 1.13-4.4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1851 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2020-35357)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3858-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2020-35357)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3576 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2020-35357)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-353 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2020-35357)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of gsl installed on the remote host is prior to 1.15-13. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2255 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2020-35357)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3527-1 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2020-35357)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199700	RHEL 8 : gsl (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
199686	RHEL 9 : gsl (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196153	RHEL 7 : gsl (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196131	RHEL 6 : gsl (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
185162	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 ESM / 23.04 : GNU Scientific Library vulnerability (USN-6472-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
183004	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gsl (SUSE-SU-2023:4051-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
182714	Amazon Linux AMI : gsl (ALAS-2023-1851)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
182184	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : gsl (SUSE-SU-2023:3858-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
181775	Debian DLA-3576-1 : gsl - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
181723	Amazon Linux 2023 : gsl, gsl-devel (ALAS2023-2023-353)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
181710	Amazon Linux 2 : gsl (ALAS-2023-2255)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
180538	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : gsl (SUSE-SU-2023:3527-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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