CVE-2022-39832

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

05/09/2022

Last modified:

07/11/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.6.2. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_string in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High