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SciLinux 5.x Medium: Graphviz Update For Remote Code Issue

Calendar Nov 11, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory remote code execution patch medium graphviz scientific linux
Medium: graphviz security, bug fix, and enhancement update 
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:48:53 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Medium: graphviz on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Medium: graphviz security, bug fix, and enhancement update
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-4555

Stack-based buffer overflow in the push_subg function in parser.y
(lib/graph/parser.c) in Graphviz 2.20.2, and possibly earlier versions,
allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a DOT file with a
large number of Agraph_t elements. (CVE-2008-4555)

Note: graphviz-ocaml is no longer supported in the SL version of
graphiviz. This is because ocaml was never included. If you do have
graphviz-ocaml installed, you will have to remove it before doing this
update.

Note: This update is already in SL 5.4

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
graphviz-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.src.rpm
 i386:
graphviz-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-devel-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-doc-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-gd-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-graphs-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-guile-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-java-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-lua-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-perl-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-php-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-python-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-ruby-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
graphviz-tcl-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.i386.rpm
lua-5.1.2-1.el5.i386.rpm
lua-devel-5.1.2-1.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
graphviz-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-devel-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-doc-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-gd-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-graphs-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-guile-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-java-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-lua-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-perl-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-php-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-python-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-ruby-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
graphviz-tcl-2.24.0-1.el5.sl.x86_64.rpm
lua-5.1.2-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
lua-devel-5.1.2-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson