CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4555
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
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.
Affected configurations
• graphviz graphviz (<= 2.20.2)
• graphviz graphviz 1.5.1
• graphviz graphviz 1.5.2
• graphviz graphviz 1.5.3
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.5.1
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.5.2
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.5.3
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.5.4
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.5.5
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.5.6
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.5.7
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.5 0.1
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.5 0.2
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.5 0.3
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.16.1
• graphviz graphviz 1.7.16.2
• graphviz graphviz 1.8.5.1
• graphviz graphviz 1.8.5.2
• graphviz graphviz 1.8.9.1
• graphviz graphviz 1.10 2003-09-15 0415 1
• graphviz graphviz 1.10 2003-09-15 0415 2
• graphviz graphviz 1.12.1
• graphviz graphviz 1.12.2
• graphviz graphviz 1.12.3
• graphviz graphviz 1.14.1
• graphviz graphviz 1.16.1
• graphviz graphviz 2.2
• graphviz graphviz 2.2.1
• graphviz graphviz 2.2.1.1
• graphviz graphviz 2.2.2
• graphviz graphviz 2.4
• graphviz graphviz 2.6
• graphviz graphviz 2.8
• graphviz graphviz 2.10
• graphviz graphviz 2.12
• graphviz graphviz 2.14
• graphviz graphviz 2.16
• graphviz graphviz 2.18
• graphviz graphviz 2.20.0
• graphviz graphviz 2.20.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240636 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://roeehay.blogspot.com/2008/10/graphviz-buffer-overflow-code-execution.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32186 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32656 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-04.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4409 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497150/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31648 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45765 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240636 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://roeehay.blogspot.com/2008/10/graphviz-buffer-overflow-code-execution.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32186 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32656 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-04.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4409 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497150/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31648 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45765 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com