High severity · published Sep 5, 2022
CVE-2022-39831
An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.6.2
7.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.6.2. 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. This issue is different from CVE-2018-20230.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
36; 37 · source: NVD
PS
Pspp · Gnu
1.6.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39831
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39831
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OECANCPD4WSSBJLSC3EE472M5DXRTIS4/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VQKWIVW5WJ5ZQNNQFRKTRKD7J3LRLUYW/
Exploit
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62977
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