SB2019032129 - Resource exhaustion in graphviz
Published: March 21, 2019 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019032129
Severity
Medium
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) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9904)
The 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.