CVE-2018-19492

An issue was discovered in cairo.trm in Gnuplot 5.2.5. This issue allows an attacker to conduct a buffer overflow with an arbitrary amount of data in the cairotrm_options function. This flaw is caused by a missing size check of an argument passed to the "set font" function. This issue occurs when the Gnuplot pngcairo terminal is used as a backend.

Gnuplot allows for trivial execution of arbitrary commands from within gnuplot files by design. As such, gnuplot files should be considered as inherently dangerous and users should only execute files from trusted sources.

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