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Fedora 37 PSPP Update: Critical Severity Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important enhancement for pspp in Fedora 37 resolves buffer vulnerability problems, improving both security and functionality.
Fix for CVE-2022-39831, CVE-2022-39831

Summary

PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It

interprets commands in the SPSS language and produces tabular

output in ASCII, PostScript, or HTML format.

PSPP development is ongoing. It already supports a large subset

of SPSS's transformation language. Its statistical procedure

support is currently limited, but growing.

Fix for CVE-2022-39831, CVE-2022-39831

* Tue Aug 23 2022 Mamoru TASAKA - 1.6.2-3

- Rebuild for gsl-2.7.1

[ 1 ] Bug #2124265 - CVE-2022-39831 pspp: heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_bytes_internal in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124265

[ 2 ] Bug #2124267 - CVE-2022-39832 pspp: heap-based buffer overflow at the function read_string in utilities/pspp-dump-sav.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124267

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-629b1e8b81' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 37
Version: 1.6.2
Release: 4.fc37
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Summary: A program for statistical analysis of sampled data

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