Stack-based buffer overflow - CVE-2014-1236
Published: January 10, 2014 / Updated: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33101
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-2014-1236
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 chkNum function in lib/cgraph/scan.l when processing vectors related to a "badly formed number" and a "long digit list. 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
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
graphviz (Alpine package)
nagios (Alpine package)
graphviz
How to mitigate CVE-2014-1236
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
nagios (Alpine package) - update to 3.4.4-r1
graphviz - update to 2.12-10.el5
External References
- http://osvdb.org/101851
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/46
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/51
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/54
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55666
- http://secunia.com/advisories/56244
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2843
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:024
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64737
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050872
- https://github.com/ellson/graphviz/commit/1d1bdec6318746f6f19f245db589eddc887ae8ff
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-06