Resource exhaustion in graphviz
| Risk | Medium |
| Patch available | YES |
| Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
| CVE-ID | CVE-2019-9904 |
| CWE-ID | CWE-400 |
| Exploitation vector | Network |
| Public exploit | N/A |
| Vulnerable software Subscribe |
graphviz Universal components / Libraries / Libraries used by multiple products |
| Vendor | The Graphviz Project |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion
EUVDB-ID: #VU36049
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9904
CWE-ID:
CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
An issue was discovered in libcdtdttree.c in libcdt.a in graphviz 2.40.1. Stack consumption occurs because of recursive agclose calls in libcgraphgraph.c in libcgraph.a, related to agfstsubg in libcgraphsubg.c.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsgraphviz: 2.40.1
External linkshttp://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/issues/1512
http://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-buffer-overflow-in-function-agclose-graphviz/
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.
