USN-2083-1: Graphviz vulnerabilities

16 January 2014

Graphviz could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • graphviz - rich set of graph drawing tools

Details

It was discovered that Graphviz incorrectly handled memory in the yyerror
function. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted dot file,
an attacker could cause Graphviz to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2014-0978, CVE-2014-1235)

It was discovered that Graphviz incorrectly handled memory in the chkNum
function. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted dot file,
an attacker could cause Graphviz to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2014-1236)

The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the
vulnerability to a denial of service.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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