Medium: graphviz

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

Issue Correction:
Run yum update graphviz to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    graphviz-lua-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-java-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-python-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-ruby-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-guile-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-php54-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-tcl-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-gd-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-doc-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-graphs-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-devel-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-debuginfo-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-perl-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
    graphviz-R-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    graphviz-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    graphviz-guile-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-gd-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-doc-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-R-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-ruby-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-lua-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-tcl-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-java-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-debuginfo-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-perl-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-graphs-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-devel-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-python-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  
    graphviz-php54-2.30.1-12.39.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-0978, CVE-2014-1235, CVE-2014-1236

Mitre: CVE-2014-0978, CVE-2014-1235, CVE-2014-1236