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An\nattacker could possibly use these issues to cause Gnuplot to\nexperience a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or\narbitrary code execution. These issues only affected Ubuntu\n14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19490, CVE-2018-19491,\nCVE-2018-19492)\n\nIt was discovered that Gnuplot could write out-of-bounds due to\nthe use of strncpy(). An attacker could possibly use this issue\nto enable the execution of arbitrary code. This issue only\naffected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-25412)\n\nIt was discovered that Gnuplot incorrectly freed memory when\nexecuting print_set_output(). An attacker could possibly use this\nissue to enable the execution of arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-25559)\n\nIt was discovered that Gnuplot's plotrequest() function contained\na buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to\ncause Gnuplot to crash, resulting in a denial of service or\narbitrary code execution. (CVE-2020-25969)\n\nIt was discovered that Gnuplot's boundary3d() function could be\nmade to divide by zero. An attacker could possibly use this issue\nto cause Gnuplot to crash, resulting in a denial of service.\n(CVE-2021-44917)","status":"published","published":"2025-06-23T12:12:04Z","modified":"2026-06-25T13:32:30.390896706Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:19.988474Z"}]}}