| Name | CVE-2018-20230 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 916902 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pspp (PTS) | jessie | 0.8.4-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 0.10.2-1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 1.2.0-3 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.4.1-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.6.2-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.0.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| pspp | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| pspp | source | (unstable) | 1.2.0-3 | | | 916902 |
Notes
[stretch] - pspp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - pspp <no-dsa> (Crash cannot be observed under normal conditions)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660318
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/commit/?id=abd1f816ca3b4f382bddf4564ad092aa934f0ccc