CVE-2017-10792

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Published 2017-07-02 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

4.3

VIR risk

6.5

Description

There is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the function ll_insert() of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP before 0.11.0. For example, a crash was observed within the library code when attempting to convert invalid SPSS data into CSV format. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10792

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.0.0-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.0.0-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.0.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.0.0-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.0.0-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gnu	pspp	`0.10.5-pre2`

References

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-announce/2017-08/msg00000.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99385
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1467005
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10792

CWEs

CWE-476

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.