What is CVE-2017-10791?

CVE-2017-10791 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNU Pspp, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-10791?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Integer overflow in GNU Pspp

CVE-2017-10791

There is an Integer overflow in the hash_int function 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.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2017-07-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (76.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 76.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GNU Pspp — versions 0.10.5-pre2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-announce/2017-08/msg00000.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-10791?: CVE-2017-10791 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNU Pspp, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-10791?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.