Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name MDVSA-2014:248 First vendor Publication 2014-12-14
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2014-12-14
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Updated graphviz packages fix security vulnerability:

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 (CVE-2014-9157).

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:248

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-134 Uncontrolled Format String (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28490
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28490
Title: DSA-3098-1 -- graphviz security update
Description: Joshua Rogers discovered a format string vulnerability in the yyerror function in lib/cgraph/scan.l in Graphviz, a rich set of graph drawing tools. An attacker could use this flaw to cause graphviz to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3098-1
CVE-2014-9157
Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
Product(s): graphviz
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28669
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28669
Title: USN-2435-1 -- Graphviz vulnerability
Description: It was discovered that graphviz incorrectly handled parsing errors. An attacker could use this issue to cause graphviz to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2435-1
CVE-2014-9157
Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.10
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): graphviz
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-12-14 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-1341.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-04-03 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2015-187.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-105.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-09 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-487.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-09 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-488.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3098.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-15 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-248.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-09 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2435-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-15760.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-15811.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-12-06 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-15812.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-12-16 13:25:49
  • Multiple Updates
2014-12-14 21:22:47
  • First insertion