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high 7.8

CVE-2017-9670 json

An uninitialized stack variable vulnerability in load_tic_series() in set.c in gnuplot 5.2.rc1 allows an attacker to cause Denial of Servic…

published 2017-06-15 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18601

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An uninitialized stack variable vulnerability in load_tic_series() in set.c in gnuplot 5.2.rc1 allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault and Memory Corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact when a victim opens a specially crafted file.

Patch / fix

  • gnuplot Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.0.5+dfsg1-7

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9670

  • gnuplot SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5 +1 more 4.6.5-3.3.74

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:1660-1

  • gnuplot openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.4.2-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10800-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-9670 updated cvss 3.3

gnuplot: Uninitialized stack variable in load_tic_series()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 gnuplot Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gnuplot, emacs-gnuplot, gnuplot-latex, gnuplot-common, gnuplot-minimal, emacs-gnuplot-el Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 gnuplot, emacs-gnuplot, gnuplot-latex, gnuplot-common, gnuplot-minimal, emacs-gnuplot-el
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer

References

Sources

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