{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20230","details":"An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. There is a heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:47:18Z","published":"2018-12-19T11:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2018-20230"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20230"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660318"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20230"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pspp","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/pspp@0.8.5-5build1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.8.5-4","0.8.5-4build1","0.8.5-5","0.8.5-5build1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"pspp","binary_version":"0.8.5-5build1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20230.json"}},{"package":{"name":"pspp","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/pspp@1.0.1-1?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1.0.1-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"pspp","binary_version":"1.0.1-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20230.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}