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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-18032: Moderate: graphviz security update (ALSA-2021-4256)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-18032: Moderate: graphviz security update (ALSA-2021-4256)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/29/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/20/2022

Description

Buffer Overflow in Graphviz Graph Visualization Tools from commit ID f8b9e035 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by loading a crafted file into the "lib/common/shapes.c" component.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-graphviz
  • alma-upgrade-graphviz-devel
  • alma-upgrade-graphviz-doc
  • alma-upgrade-graphviz-gd
  • alma-upgrade-graphviz-python3

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