Format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vectors, which are not properly handled in an error string.

According to the version of the graphviz packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - Format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in     lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz allows remote attackers     to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers     in unknown vectors, which are not properly handled in     an error string.(CVE-2014-9157)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for graphviz fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2014-9157: Fix format string vulnerability     (boo#908426).

Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerability :

Format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vector, which are not properly handled in an error string (CVE-2014-9157).

Additionally the gtkglarea2 and gtkglext packages were missing and was required for graphviz to build, these packages are also being provided with this advisory.

Joshua Rogers discovered a format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz, a rich set of graph drawing tools. An attacker could use this flaw to cause graphviz to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vector, which are not properly handled in an error string.

Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerability :

Format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vector, which are not properly handled in an error string (CVE-2014-9157).

Joshua Rogers discovered a format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz, a rich set of graph drawing tools. An attacker could use this flaw to cause graphviz to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

It was discovered that graphviz incorrectly handled parsing errors. An attacker could use this issue to cause graphviz to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This is an update fixing format string vulnerability in cgraph.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
132127	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : graphviz (EulerOS-SA-2019-2592)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
131847	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : graphviz (EulerOS-SA-2019-2355)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
105231	openSUSE Security Update : graphviz (openSUSE-2017-1341)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
82558	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : graphviz (MDVSA-2015:187)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
82089	Debian DLA-105-1 : graphviz security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
81676	Amazon Linux AMI : graphviz-php (ALAS-2015-488)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
81675	Amazon Linux AMI : graphviz (ALAS-2015-487)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
79993	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : graphviz (MDVSA-2014:248)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
79885	Debian DSA-3098-1 : graphviz - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
79825	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Graphviz vulnerability (USN-2435-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
79784	Fedora 19 : graphviz-2.30.1-13.fc19 (2014-15811)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
79782	Fedora 21 : graphviz-2.38.0-11.fc21 (2014-15760)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
79750	Fedora 20 : graphviz-2.34.0-10.fc20 (2014-15812)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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