National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability
Database

    Vulnerabilities Detail

CVE-2014-9157 Detail

Description

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 vectors, which are not properly handled in an error string.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  04/08/2016

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.5 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows unauthorized modification
Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

Hyperlink Resource
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0520.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/784 Exploit
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/872 Exploit
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3098
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71283
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98949
https://github.com/ellson/graphviz/commit/99eda421f7ddc27b14e4ac1d2126e5fe41719081 Exploit

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Format String Vulnerability (CWE-134)

Change History

8 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-9157
NVD Published Date:
12/03/2014
NVD Last Modified:
09/07/2017