CVE catalog
CVE-2025-5899
pspp: CVE-2025-5899
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.17% · Oct 25, 2026
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in GNU PSPP 82fb509fb2fedd33e7ac0c46ca99e108bb3bdffb. Affected by this vulnerability is the function parse_variables_option of the file utilities/pspp-convert.c. The manipulation leads to free of memory not on the heap. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | pspp | sid | 2.1.2-1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | pspp | forky | 2.1.2-1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | pspp | trixie | 2.0.1-1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | pspp | bookworm | 1.6.2-2 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | pspp | source | sid | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1107819] |
| Debian | pspp | source | forky | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1107819] |
| Debian | pspp | source | trixie | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1107819] |
| Debian | pspp | source | bookworm | (unfixed) | not yet assigned | Not reported | [1107819] |
Notes
[trixie] pspp: Minor issue [bookworm] pspp: Minor issue
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [pspp]Affected
Details (2)
1.6.2-2· amd64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · pspp · debian · bookworm
1.6.2-2· arm64 · bookwormAffected
dsa · pspp · debian · bookworm
Observed: