Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 ESM / 23.04 : GNU Scientific Library vulnerability (USN-6472-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 ESM / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6472-1 advisory. It was discovered that GNU Scientific Library incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system wer...

SUSE SLED15: gsl / gsl-devel / gsl-doc / gsl-examples / gsl-gnu-hpc / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:3858-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3858-1 advisory. - CVE-2020-35357: Fixed a stack out of bounds read in gslstatsquantilefromsorteddata. bsc1214681 Tenable...

CVE-2020-35357

A buffer overflow can occur when calculating the quantile value using the Statistics Library of GSL GNU Scientific Library, versions 2.5 and 2.6. Processing a maliciously crafted input data for gslstatsquantilefromsorteddata of the library may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitra...