CVE-2025-47814 Memory corruption in PSPP

Medium 4.5 Published 10 May 2025 Updated 13 May 2025

Attackers can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow in GNU PSPP via crafted files, potentially leading to code execution or application crashes.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2025-47814?

CVE-2025-47814 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in GNU PSPP, published on 10 May 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

libpspp-core.a in GNU PSPP through 2.0.1 allows attackers to cause a heap-based buffer overflow in inflate_read (called indirectly from spv_read_xml_member) in zip-reader.c.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-122

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-47814?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Gnu Pspp.

How do I fix CVE-2025-47814?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-47814 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2025-47814 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-47814 exists.

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-47814, GHSA-q493-98vp-6cm3, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-47814.