There is a reachable assertion abort in the function write_long_string_missing_values() in data/sys-file-writer.c in libdata.a in GNU PSPP 1.2.0 that will lead to denial of service.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function write_long_string_missing_values() in data/sys-file-     writer.c in libdata.a in GNU PSPP 1.2.0 that will lead to denial of service. (CVE-2019-9211)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

- Fixed several CVEs

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This update for pspp fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2019-9211: Handle a reachable assertion in     write_long_string_missing_values() in libdata.a that     could have lead to denial of service. (boo#1127343).

  - Remove excessive -n argument to %build, and excessive     %defattr lines.

- Fixed several CVEs

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  - PSPP ver. 1.2.0

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
256898	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-9211	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
124502	Fedora 30 : pspp (2019-6dcb6b21de)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
124016	openSUSE Security Update : pspp (openSUSE-2019-1189)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	medium
123805	Fedora 29 : pspp (2019-817ff2201f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium

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