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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-9904

medium Nessus Plugin ID 223192

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in lib\cdt\dttree.c in libcdt.a in graphviz 2.40.1. Stack consumption occurs because of recursive agclose calls in lib\cgraph\graph.c in libcgraph.a, related to agfstsubg in lib\cgraph\subg.c. (CVE-2019-9904)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9904

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9904

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 223192

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2019_9904.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 9/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9904

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-php, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:graphviz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-tcl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-guile, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-ocaml, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-lua, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-ruby, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-php, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-graphs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-ruby, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-gd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-python3, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-java, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-ocaml, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-tcl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-python, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-perl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-python3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-lua, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-java, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-gd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz-graphs, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:graphviz, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphviz-guile

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9904