PT-2008-5784 · At&T · Graphviz

Published 2008-10-14 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4555

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

8.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Graphviz versions prior to 2.20.3

Description The issue is a stack-based buffer overflow in the push subg function, located in parser.y (lib/graph/parser.c), which can be triggered by a DOT file containing a large number of Agraph t elements. This can lead to a denial of service due to memory corruption or potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.20.3, update to version 2.20.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4555

Affected Products

Graphviz

References · 14

• 🔥 http://roeehay.blogspot.com/2008/10/graphviz-buffer-overflow-code-execution.html · Exploit
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-04.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31648 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32186 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4555 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4555 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4555 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4555 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4409 · Note
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240636 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/497150/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45765 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32656 · Note