Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-1235 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Graphviz 2.34.0
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the "yyerror" function in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file. NOTE: This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-0978.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201702-06.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201702-06 (Graphviz: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities in Graphviz were discovered. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker, able to control input matched against a regular expression or by enticing a user to process a specially crafted file, could cause unspecified impacts. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 97112 published 2017-02-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97112 title GLSA-201702-06 : Graphviz: Multiple vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201702-06. # # The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Gentoo Foundation, Inc. # and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike # license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(97112); script_version("$Revision: 3.2 $"); script_cvs_date("$Date: 2018/01/26 17:15:57 $"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0978", "CVE-2014-1235", "CVE-2014-1236"); script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"201702-06"); script_name(english:"GLSA-201702-06 : Graphviz: Multiple vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201702-06 (Graphviz: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities in Graphviz were discovered. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker, able to control input matched against a regular expression or by enticing a user to process a specially crafted file, could cause unspecified impacts. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-06" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "All Graphviz users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=media-gfx/graphviz-2.36.0'" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:graphviz"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/02/10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/02/13"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("qpkg.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (qpkg_check(package:"media-gfx/graphviz", unaffected:make_list("ge 2.36.0"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 2.36.0"))) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = qpkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "Graphviz"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-0602.NASL description This is an update fixing CVE-2014-1235 and CVE-2014-1236. This is an update that fixes overflow in yyerror. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-02-12 plugin id 72441 published 2014-02-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/72441 title Fedora 20 : graphviz-2.34.0-8.fc20 (2014-0602) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2014-0602. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(72441); script_version("1.5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0978", "CVE-2014-1235", "CVE-2014-1236"); script_bugtraq_id(64674, 64736, 64737); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2014-0602"); script_name(english:"Fedora 20 : graphviz-2.34.0-8.fc20 (2014-0602)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This is an update fixing CVE-2014-1235 and CVE-2014-1236. This is an update that fixes overflow in yyerror. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049165" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050871" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050872" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128085.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?bae5472d" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected graphviz package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:graphviz"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/01/11"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/02/12"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^20([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 20.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC20", reference:"graphviz-2.34.0-8.fc20")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "graphviz"); }
NASL family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ALA_ALAS-2014-297.NASL description Stack-based buffer overflow in the chkNum function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to a last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 72945 published 2014-03-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/72945 title Amazon Linux AMI : graphviz-php (ALAS-2014-297) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2014-297. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(72945); script_version("1.5"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:35"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0978", "CVE-2014-1235", "CVE-2014-1236"); script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2014-297"); script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : graphviz-php (ALAS-2014-297)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Stack-based buffer overflow in the chkNum function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to a 'badly formed number' and a 'long digit list.' Stack-based buffer overflow in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a long line in a dot file. Graphviz was recently reported to be affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability, which seem to have introduced in the fix for CVE-2014-0978 ." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-297.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Run 'yum update graphviz-php' to update your system." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:graphviz-php"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/03/06"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/03/12"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release"); if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (os_ver != "A") { if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI'; audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver); } if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"graphviz-php-2.30.1-12.37.amzn1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "graphviz-php"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-0621.NASL description This is an update that fixes CVE-2014-1235 and CVE-2014-1236. This is an update that fixes overflow in yyerror. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-02-12 plugin id 72442 published 2014-02-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/72442 title Fedora 19 : graphviz-2.30.1-12.fc19 (2014-0621) NASL family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ALA_ALAS-2014-296.NASL description Stack-based buffer overflow in the chkNum function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz 2.34.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to a last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 72944 published 2014-03-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/72944 title Amazon Linux AMI : graphviz (ALAS-2014-296) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2083-1.NASL description It was discovered that Graphviz incorrectly handled memory in the yyerror function. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted dot file, an attacker could cause Graphviz to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-0978, CVE-2014-1235) It was discovered that Graphviz incorrectly handled memory in the chkNum function. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted dot file, an attacker could cause Graphviz to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-1236) The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2014-01-17 plugin id 72005 published 2014-01-17 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/72005 title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : graphviz vulnerabilities (USN-2083-1)
References
- https://github.com/ellson/graphviz/commit/d266bb2b4154d11c27252b56d86963aef4434750
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050871
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64736
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/54
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-06
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90198