Advisories » MGASA-2014-0027

Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 24 Jan 2014
Modification date: 24 Jan 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3
CVE: CVE-2014-0978 , CVE-2014-1236

Description

Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in graphviz due to an error within
the "yyerror()" function (lib/cgraph/scan.l) which can be exploited to cause
a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file (CVE-2014-0978)
and the acceptance of an arbitrarily long digit list by a regular expression
matched against user input (CVE-2014-1236).
                

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049165
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050872
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12239
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0978
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1236

SRPMS

3/core

• graphviz-2.28.0-11.1.mga3