Graphviz: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201702-06

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Graphviz and the extent of these vulnerabilities are unspecified.

Affected packages

media-gfx/graphviz on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.36.0
Unaffected versions >= 2.36.0

Background

Graphviz is an open source graph visualization software.

Description

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.

Resolution

All Graphviz users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/graphviz-2.36.0"
 

References

Release date
February 10, 2017

Latest revision
February 10, 2017: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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