Security Advisory

CVE-2018-19492

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in cairo.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the cairotrm_options function. This flaw is caused by a missing size check of an argument passed to the "set font" function. This issue occurs when the Gnuplot pngcairo terminal is used as a backend.
Published Date November 23, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory