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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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 relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

An update of the gnuplot package has been released.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-202 advisory.

    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)

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

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

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

  - 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 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
224244	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-44917	Nessus	Misc.	medium
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
176937	Amazon Linux 2023 : gnuplot-common, gnuplot-latex, gnuplot-minimal (ALAS2023-2023-202)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
161551	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : gnuplot (EulerOS-SA-2022-1725)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
159084	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gnuplot (EulerOS-SA-2022-1322)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2021-44917

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