CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2025-47229 — Gnu Pspp security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

libpspp-core.a in GNU PSPP through 2.0.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (var_set_leave_quiet assertion failure and application exit) via crafted input data, such as data that triggers a call from src/data/dictionary.c code into src/data/variable.c code.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2025-05-03
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-617

Affected products

  • gnu / pspp

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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