CVE-2017-10792

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-07-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

There is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the function ll_insert() of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP before 0.11.0. For example, a crash was observed within the library code when attempting to convert invalid SPSS data into CSV format. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Affected products

GNU PSPP: 0.10.5-pre2

References

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-announce/2017-08/msg00000.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99385
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1467005
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-announce/2017-08/msg00000.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99385
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1467005

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