National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4555

Overview

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.

Impact

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External Source: BID

Name: 31648

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31648

External Source: XF

Name: graphviz-pushsubg-bo(45765)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45765

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081008 Advisory: Graphviz Buffer Overflow Code Execution

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/497150/100/0/threaded

External Source: SREASON

Name: 4409

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4409

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200811-04

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-04.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32656

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32656

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32186

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32186

External Source: MISC

Name: http://roeehay.blogspot.com/2008/10/graphviz-buffer-overflow-code-execution.html

Hyperlink:http://roeehay.blogspot.com/2008/10/graphviz-buffer-overflow-code-execution.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2008:023

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240636

Hyperlink:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240636