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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in GNU...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Jun 10, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 10, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in GNU PSPP 82fb509fb2fedd33e7ac0c46ca99e108bb3bdffb. Affected by this vulnerability is the function parse_variables_option of the file utilities/pspp-convert.c. The manipulation leads to free of memory not on the heap. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 9, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 10, 2025
Last updated Jun 10, 2025

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(3rd percentile)

Weaknesses

Free of Memory not on the Heap

The product calls free() on a pointer to memory that was not allocated using associated heap allocation functions such as malloc(), calloc(), or realloc(). Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2025-5899

GHSA ID

GHSA-65vc-89h4-wvx6

Source code

No known source code

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