Stack-based buffer overflow - CVE-2014-0978

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Stack-based buffer overflow - CVE-2014-0978

Published: January 10, 2014 / Updated: August 3, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33099
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0978
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l when processing a long line in a dot file. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trigger stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
graphviz (Alpine package)
nagios (Alpine package)
graphviz

How to mitigate CVE-2014-0978

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

graphviz (Alpine package) - update to 2.34.0-r2
nagios (Alpine package) - update to 3.4.4-r1
graphviz - addressed in versions 2.12-9.el5, 2.12-10.el5

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