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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for graphviz (ALAS-2015-487) (CVE-2014-9157)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for graphviz (ALAS-2015-487) (CVE-2014-9157)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/03/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/09/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vectors, which are not properly handled in an error string.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-doc
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-gd
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-graphs
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-guile
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-java
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-lua
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-perl
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-php54
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-python
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-r
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-ruby
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphviz-tcl

References

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