The agroot() function in cgraph\obj.c in libcgraph.a in Graphviz 2.39.20160612.1140 has a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by graphml2gv.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The agroot() function in cgraph\obj.c in libcgraph.a in Graphviz 2.39.20160612.1140 has a NULL pointer     dereference, as demonstrated by graphml2gv. (CVE-2019-11023)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5971-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that graphviz contains null pointer dereference vulnerabilities. Exploitation via a     specially crafted input file can cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2018-10196)

    It was discovered that graphviz contains null pointer dereference vulnerabilities. Exploitation via a     specially crafted input file can cause a denial of service. These issues only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM     and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-11023)

    It was discovered that graphviz contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. Exploitation via a specially     crafted input file can cause a denial of service or possibly allow for arbitrary code execution. These     issues only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-18032)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5264-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that graphviz contains null pointer dereference

    vulnerabilities. Exploitation via a specially crafted input file

    can cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-10196, CVE-2019-11023)

    It was discovered that graphviz contains a buffer overflow

    vulnerability. Exploitation via a specially crafted input file can cause a denial of service or possibly     allow for arbitrary code execution.

    (CVE-2020-18032)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for graphviz fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2019-11023: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability,     which was caused by a NULL pointer dereference in     agroot() (bsc#1132091).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for graphviz fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2019-11023: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability, which was caused by a NULL pointer dereference in agroot() (bsc#1132091).

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

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

  - The agroot() function in cgraph\obj.c in libcgraph.a in     Graphviz 2.39.20160612.1140 has a NULL pointer     dereference, as demonstrated by     graphml2gv.(CVE-2019-11023)

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 is an update fixing CVE-2019-11023.

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

The agroot() function in cgraph\obj.c in libcgraph.a in Graphviz has a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated by graphml2gv.
(CVE-2019-11023)

This is an update fixing CVE-2019-11023.

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Fixed NULL pointer dereference in function agroot(), CVE-2019-11023

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
222518	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-11023	Nessus	Misc.	high
173372	Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM : Graphviz vulnerabilities (USN-5971-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
157371	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Graphviz vulnerabilities (USN-5264-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
138714	openSUSE Security Update : graphviz (openSUSE-2020-906)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
138706	openSUSE Security Update : graphviz (openSUSE-2020-876)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
138490	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : graphviz (SUSE-SU-2019:1267-3)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
129257	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : graphviz (EulerOS-SA-2019-2064)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
126997	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : graphviz (EulerOS-SA-2019-1760)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
126853	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : graphviz (EulerOS-SA-2019-1726)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
126458	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : graphviz (SUSE-SU-2019:1267-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
126419	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : graphviz (EulerOS-SA-2019-1677)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
125532	openSUSE Security Update : graphviz (openSUSE-2019-1459)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
125349	openSUSE Security Update : graphviz (openSUSE-2019-1434)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
125345	Fedora 29 : graphviz (2019-feeb1a2543)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
125293	Amazon Linux AMI : graphviz (ALAS-2019-1207)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
125246	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : graphviz (SUSE-SU-2019:1267-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
124601	Fedora 30 : graphviz (2019-521e6c567c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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