CVE-2020-35357

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-120

Description

A buffer overflow can occur when calculating the quantile value using the Statistics Library of GSL (GNU Scientific Library), versions 2.5 and 2.6. Processing a maliciously crafted input data for gsl_stats_quantile_from_sorted_data of the library may lead to unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0
Gnu Scientific Library: 2.5, 2.6

References

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/commit/?id=989a193268b963aa1047814f7f1402084fb7d859
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00023.html
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59624
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/commit/?id=989a193268b963aa1047814f7f1402084fb7d859
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00023.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00006.html
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59624

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