Advisories » MGASA-2019-0305

Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 Oct 2019
Modification date: 29 Oct 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-11023

Description

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:

The agroot() function in cgraph\obj.c in libcgraph.a in Graphviz 
2.39.20160612.1140 has a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated
by graphml2gv. (CVE-2019-11023)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25563
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699848
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FI3D5TQE3IMCSF5OUTXQL4GVKFCIY5JG/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11023

SRPMS

7/core

• graphviz-2.40.1-17.1.mga7