Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-297
Advisory Release Date: 2014-03-06 14:55 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-16 22:36 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Stack-based buffer overflow in the chkNum function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to a "badly formed number" and a "long digit list."
Stack-based buffer overflow in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a long line in a dot file.
Graphviz was recently reported to be affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability, which seem to have introduced in the fix for CVE-2014-0978.
Affected Packages:
graphviz-php
Issue Correction:
Run yum update graphviz-php to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
graphviz-php-2.30.1-12.37.amzn1.i686
src:
graphviz-php-2.30.1-12.37.amzn1.src
x86_64:
graphviz-php-2.30.1-12.37.amzn1.x86_64