A flaw was found in GNUPlot. A segmentation fault via IO_str_init_static_internal may jeopardize the environment.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7773-1 advisory.

    ChenYiFan Liu discovered that Gnuplot did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2025-3359, CVE-2025-31178,     CVE-2025-31179, CVE-2025-31181)

    ChenYiFan Liu discovered that Gnuplot did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04. (CVE-2025-31176, CVE-2025-31180)

    ChenYiFan Liu discovered that Gnuplot did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04.
    (CVE-2025-31177)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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

  - A flaw was found in GNUPlot. A segmentation fault via IO_str_init_static_internal may jeopardize the     environment. (CVE-2025-3359)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01811-2 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-31176: invalid read leads to segmentation fault on plot3d_points (bsc#1240325).
    - CVE-2025-31177: improper bounds check leads to heap-buffer overflow on utf8_copy_one (bsc#1240326).
    - CVE-2025-31178: unvalidated user input leads to segmentation fault on GetAnnotateString (bsc#1240327).
    - CVE-2025-31179: improper verification of time values leads to segmentation fault on xstrftime     (bsc#1240328).
    - CVE-2025-31180: unchecked invalid pointer access leads to segmentation fault on CANVAS_text     (bsc#1240329).
    - CVE-2025-31181: double fclose() call leads to segmentation fault on X11_graphics (bsc#1240330).
    - CVE-2025-3359: out-of-bounds read when parsing font names may lead to a segmentation fault     (bsc#1241684).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01805-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-31178: unvalidated user input leads to segmentation fault on GetAnnotateString (bsc#1240327).
    - CVE-2025-31179: improper verification of time values leads to segmentation fault on xstrftime     (bsc#1240328).
    - CVE-2025-31181: double fclose() call leads to segmentation fault on X11_graphics (bsc#1240330).
    - CVE-2025-3359: out-of-bounds read when parsing font names may lead to a segmentation fault     (bsc#1241684).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01811-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-31176: invalid read leads to segmentation fault on plot3d_points (bsc#1240325).
    - CVE-2025-31177: improper bounds check leads to heap-buffer overflow on utf8_copy_one (bsc#1240326).
    - CVE-2025-31178: unvalidated user input leads to segmentation fault on GetAnnotateString (bsc#1240327).
    - CVE-2025-31179: improper verification of time values leads to segmentation fault on xstrftime     (bsc#1240328).
    - CVE-2025-31180: unchecked invalid pointer access leads to segmentation fault on CANVAS_text     (bsc#1240329).
    - CVE-2025-31181: double fclose() call leads to segmentation fault on X11_graphics (bsc#1240330).
    - CVE-2025-3359: out-of-bounds read when parsing font names may lead to a segmentation fault     (bsc#1241684).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-960 advisory.

    A flaw was found in GNUPlot. A segmentation fault via IO_str_init_static_internal may jeopardize the     environment. (CVE-2025-3359)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
265985	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : Gnuplot vulnerabilities (USN-7773-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
259048	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-3359	Nessus	Misc.	medium
242215	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : gnuplot (SUSE-SU-2025:01811-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
237777	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : gnuplot (SUSE-SU-2025:01805-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
237776	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : gnuplot (SUSE-SU-2025:01811-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
235896	Amazon Linux 2023 : gnuplot-common, gnuplot-latex, gnuplot-minimal (ALAS2023-2025-960)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium

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