Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-35357 — azl3 gsl 2.8-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- azl3 gsl 2.8-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2.8-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-35357
- EchelonGraph score
- 9.8 CRITICAL
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-35357, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).