CVE-2020-35357

Publication date 22 August 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gsl 26.04 LTS resolute
Not affected
25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Fixed 2.7.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.23.04.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.7.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.5+dfsg-6+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.4+dfsg-6ubuntu0.1~esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6472-1
    • GNU Scientific Library vulnerability
    • 7 November 2023

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