| Name | CVE-2020-25969 |
| Description | gnuplot v5.5 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the function plotrequest(). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| gnuplot (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.6.6-2+deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 5.0.5+dfsg1-6+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 5.2.6+dfsg1-1+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 5.4.1+dfsg1-1+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 5.4.4+dfsg1-2 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 6.0.0+dfsg1-3 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| gnuplot | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2311
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/gnuplot-main/ci/1f36c4fbb3e8e0beb213b4a29ab463e43db9ef42/ (5.5)
No security impact, gnuplot can execute arbitrary commands and need to
come from a trusted source, see README.Debian.security (added in 5.2.6).