CVE-2008-4555 Information

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the push_subg function in parser.y (lib/graph/parser.c) in Graphviz 2.20.2 and possibly earlier versions allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a DOT file with a large number of Agraph_t elements.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240636 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html http://roeehay.blogspot.com/2008/10/graphviz-buffer-overflow-code-execution.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32186 http://secunia.com/advisories/32656 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-04.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4409 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497150/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31648 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45765