CVE-2025-5899

Name	CVE-2025-5899
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1107819

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
pspp (PTS)	bullseye	1.4.1-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	1.6.2-2	vulnerable
	forky, sid, trixie	2.0.1-1	vulnerable

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
pspp	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)			1107819

Notes

[trixie] - pspp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - pspp <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - pspp <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?67072