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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-105-1 graphviz -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

11 Dec 2014

Affected Packages:

graphviz

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 772648.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-9157.

More information:

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.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, these issues have been fixed in graphviz version 2.26.3-5+squeeze3