CVE-2017-12959: GNU Pspp

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function dict_add_mrset() in data/dictionary.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP before 1.0.1 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Affected products

• GNU Pspp: version 0.11.0 only

Published 2017-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.