CVE-2008-4555 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4555
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Description: Stack-based buffer overflow in the push_subg function in parser.y (lib/graph/parser.c) in Graphviz 2.20.2, and possibly earlier versions, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a DOT file with a large number of Agraph_t elements.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45765 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4409 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32656 Secunia Advisory: SA32186 MISC http://roeehay.blogspot.com/2008/10/graphviz-buffer-overflow-code-execution.html GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-04.xml CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240636 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/497150/100/0/threaded BID 31648

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