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CVE-2017-12959

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function dict_add_mrset() in data/dictionary.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP before 1.0.1 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Affected products

• GNU PSPP: 0.11.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482432
• https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8936
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482432
• https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8936

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