Input validation error - CVE-2014-1235

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Input validation error - CVE-2014-1235

Published: August 7, 2017 / Updated: August 3, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33100
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-1235
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file.


Affected software

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

How to mitigate CVE-2014-1235

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 - update to 2.12-10.el5

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