Source: gsl
Version: 2.7.1+dfsg-5
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59624
X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org, Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 2.6+dfsg-2

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for gsl.

CVE-2020-35357[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-35357
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35357
[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59624
[2] 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsl.git/commit/?id=989a193268b963aa1047814f7f1402084fb7d859

Regards,
Salvatore

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