ALAS-2015-487

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-9157  

Format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vector, which are not properly handled in an error string.

ALAS-2015-487


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-487
Advisory Release Date: 2015-03-04 15:53 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-03-04 16:12 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2014-9157 

Issue Overview:

Format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vector, which are not properly handled in an error string.


Affected Packages:

graphviz


Issue Correction:
Run yum update graphviz to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    graphviz-python-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-php54-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-perl-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-ruby-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-guile-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-R-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-devel-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-debuginfo-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-graphs-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-tcl-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-java-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-doc-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-lua-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686
    graphviz-gd-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.i686

src:
    graphviz-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    graphviz-debuginfo-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-gd-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-doc-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-R-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-guile-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-lua-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-java-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-ruby-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-graphs-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-devel-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-perl-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-tcl-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-python-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64
    graphviz-php54-2.38.0-18.44.amzn1.x86_64