CVE-2014-1235 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Graphviz

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-121 — Stack-based Buffer Overflow10 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV9.3
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.03%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
GraphvizDebian Graphviz
Timeline
PublishedAug 7
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the "yyerror" function in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file. NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-0978.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/graphviz< graphviz 2.26.3-16.1 (bookworm)
▶Debiangraphviz/graphviz< 2.26.3-16.1+3
▶NVDgraphviz/graphviz2.34.0

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: security.gentoo.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-w89c-3qr4-xm84: Stack-based buffer overflow in the "yyerror" function in Graphviz 2↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2014-1235: Stack-based buffer overflow in the "yyerror" function in Graphviz 2↗2017-08-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Graphviz vulnerabilities↗2014-01-16
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Red Hat
graphviz: buffer overflow in yyerror() due to improper fix for CVE-2014-0978↗2014-01-08
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Debian
CVE-2014-1235: graphviz - Stack-based buffer overflow in the "yyerror" function in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows ...↗2014
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-1235 CVE-2014-1236 graphviz: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2014-01-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-1235 graphviz: buffer overflow in yyerror() due to improper fix for CVE-2014-0978↗2014-01-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-1235 CVE-2014-1236 graphviz: various flaws [epel-5]↗2014-01-09
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-0978 graphviz: stack-based buffer overflow in yyerror()↗2014-01-07
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