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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)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 265985

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7773-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 265985

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7773-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/26/2025

Updated: 9/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-3359

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnuplot, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnuplot-qt, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnuplot-tex, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnuplot-x11, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnuplot-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnuplot-nox

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-31176, CVE-2025-31177, CVE-2025-31178, CVE-2025-31179, CVE-2025-31180, CVE-2025-31181, CVE-2025-3359

USN: 7773-1