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.

An update of the gnuplot package has been released.

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

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
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
198730	RHEL 8 : gnuplot (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
195560	RHEL 7 : gnuplot (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
195548	RHEL 6 : gnuplot (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat 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

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2021-44917

medium

Tenable Plugins

critical

critical

high

medium

critical

medium

medium

medium