CVE-2020-35357

NameCVE-2020-35357
DescriptionA 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 gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data of the library may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3576-1, DLA-3985-1
Debian Bugs1052655

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
gsl (PTS)bullseye2.6+dfsg-2vulnerable
bullseye (security)2.6+dfsg-2+deb11u1fixed
bookworm2.7.1+dfsg-5vulnerable
sid, trixie2.8+dfsg-5fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
gslsourcebuster2.5+dfsg-6+deb10u1DLA-3576-1
gslsourcebullseye2.6+dfsg-2+deb11u1DLA-3985-1
gslsource(unstable)2.7.1+dfsg-61052655

Notes

[bookworm] - gsl <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59624
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/commit/?id=989a193268b963aa1047814f7f1402084fb7d859
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