Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2021-4256 Moderate: Graphviz Security Fix

red hat
Calendar Grey November 9, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 addresses a critical vulnerability in Graphviz, rectifying an off-by-one flaw to enhance system security.
An update for graphviz is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Graphviz is open-source graph-visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. It has important applications in networking, bioinformatics, software engineering, database and web design, machine learning, and in visual interfaces for other technical domains.
Security Fix(es):
* graphviz: off-by-one in parse_reclbl() in lib/common/shapes.c (CVE-2020-18032)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat software update off-by-one graphviz

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-18032 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: graphviz-2.40.1-43.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: graphviz-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-debugsource-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-gd-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-guile-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-java-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-lua-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-ocaml-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-perl-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-python3-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-ruby-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm graphviz-tcl-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: graphviz-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-debugsource-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-gd-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-guile-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-java-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-lua-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-ocaml-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-perl-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-python3-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-ruby-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm graphviz-tcl-debuginfo-2.40.1-43.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4256-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4256
Issue date: 2021-11-09

Topic

An update for graphviz is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat software update off-by-one graphviz

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1966272 - CVE-2020-18032 graphviz: off-by-one in parse_reclbl() in lib/common/shapes.c

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here