CVE-2017-10792

MEDIUM

GNU PSPP - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in ll_insert()

Title source: llm

Description

There is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the function ll_insert() of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP before 0.11.0. For example, a crash was observed within the library code when attempting to convert invalid SPSS data into CSV format. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99385

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1467005

Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-announce/2017-08/msg00000.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0047

EPSS Percentile 64.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (1)

gnu/pspp 0.10.5-pre2

Published Jul 02, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026