Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201412-4
========================================
Severity: Medium
Date    : 2014-12-03
CVE-ID  : CVE-2014-9157
Package : graphviz
Type    : format string vulnerability
Remote  : No
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE-2014

Summary
======
The package graphviz before version 2.38.0-3 is vulnerable to a format
string vulnerability.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 2.38.0-3.

# pacman -Syu "graphviz>=2.38.0-3"

The problem has been fixed upstream, but there has been no release
including the fix yet.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
A format string vulnerability has been found in the error reporting part
of the parser used by graphviz.

Impact
=====
An attacker might be able to execute arbitrary code by supplying a
specially crafted file to graphviz.

References
=========
https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-9157
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/872
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42983
https://github.com/ellson/MOTHBALLED-graphviz/commit/99eda421f7ddc27b14e4ac1d2126e5fe41719081

ArchLinux: 201412-4: graphviz: format string vulnerability

December 3, 2014

Summary

A format string vulnerability has been found in the error reporting part of the parser used by graphviz.

Resolution

Upgrade to 2.38.0-3. # pacman -Syu "graphviz>=2.38.0-3"
The problem has been fixed upstream, but there has been no release including the fix yet.

References

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-9157 https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/872 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42983 https://github.com/ellson/MOTHBALLED-graphviz/commit/99eda421f7ddc27b14e4ac1d2126e5fe41719081

Severity
Package : graphviz
Type : format string vulnerability
Remote : No
Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE-2014

Workaround

None.

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