High severity · published Aug 18, 2017
CVE-2017-12961
There is an assertion abort in the function parse_attributes() in data/sys-file-reader.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP before 1.0.1 that will lead to remote denial of service
7.5
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
There is an assertion abort in the function parse_attributes() in data/sys-file-reader.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP before 1.0.1 that will lead to remote denial of service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 69% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PS
Pspp · Gnu
0.11.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12961
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12961
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482436
savannah.gnu.org
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8936
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