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Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting graphviz package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-GRAPHVIZ-1148773
  • published 28 Jan 2022
  • disclosed 21 Mar 2019
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Introduced: 21 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9904 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-674 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:16.04 graphviz.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream graphviz package and not the graphviz package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in lib\cdt\dttree.c in libcdt.a in graphviz 2.40.1. Stack consumption occurs because of recursive agclose calls in lib\cgraph\graph.c in libcgraph.a, related to agfstsubg in lib\cgraph\subg.c.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High