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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-4555

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-4555

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/14/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-graphviz
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-devel
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-doc
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-gd
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-gnome
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-guile
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-java
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-lua
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-ocaml
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-perl
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-php
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-python
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-ruby
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-sharp
  • suse-upgrade-graphviz-tcl
  • suse-upgrade-suse-release

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