CVE-2020-35357: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• GNU GNU Scientific Library: version 2.5 only; version 2.6 only

Published 2023-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.