CVE-2025-5899 (GCVE-0-2025-5899)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-09 22:00
Modified
2025-06-10 15:29
Severity ?
1.9 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RC:R
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RC:R
CWE
  • CWE-590 - Free of Memory not on the Heap
Summary
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in GNU PSPP 82fb509fb2fedd33e7ac0c46ca99e108bb3bdffb. Affected by this vulnerability is the function parse_variables_option of the file utilities/pspp-convert.c. The manipulation leads to free of memory not on the heap. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
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GNU PSPP Version: 82fb509fb2fedd33e7ac0c46ca99e108bb3bdffb
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