MEDIUM 6.5 Microsoft

CVE-2020-35357

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.

Microsoft Security Update 2023-Aug: 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.

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Published: 2023-08-08 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-14
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5 was published on 2023-08-08 via Microsoft. Affected: azl3 gsl 2.8-1 on Azure Linux 3.0.
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