SB2018053024 - Denial of service in Graphviz
Published: May 30, 2018 Updated: May 12, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018053024
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10196)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the rebuild_vlists() function in lib/dotgen/conc.c within the dotgen library. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted file and crash the application.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TWUEEJPMS5LAROYJYY6FREOTI6VPN3M4/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N6VR2CT3LD52GWAQUZAOSEXSYE3O7HGN/
- https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/issues/1367
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1579254
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3731-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00014.html