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Debian: DSA-3098-1 Critical: Graphviz Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2014
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Debian's DSA-3001-4 outlines a security update addressing a severe vulnerability in powertool, which may lead to unauthorized command execution.
Joshua Rogers discovered a format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz, a rich set of graph drawing tools
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.26.3-14+deb7u2.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem will be
fixed soon in version 2.38.0-7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.38.0-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your graphviz packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: graphviz
CVE ID: CVE-2014-9157

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