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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-19492

An issue was discovered in cairo.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the cairotrm_options function. This flaw is caused by a missing size check of an argument passed to the "set font" function. This issue occurs when the Gnuplot pngcairo terminal is used as a backend.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:46 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-19492

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Nov 2018, 17:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in cairo.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the cairotrm_options function. This flaw is caused by a missing size check of an argument passed to the "set font" function. This issue occurs when the Gnuplot pngcairo terminal is used as a backend.

osv:CVE-2018-19492
Complete source record
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