CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-10196

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: May 30, 2018 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the rebuild_vlists function in lib/dotgen/conc.c in the dotgen library in Graphviz 2.40.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted file.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Graphviz Graphviz 2.40.1 (including) 2.40.1 (including)
Graphviz Ubuntu artful *
Graphviz Ubuntu bionic *
Graphviz Ubuntu cosmic *
Graphviz Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Graphviz Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Graphviz Ubuntu trusty *
Graphviz Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Graphviz Ubuntu upstream *
Graphviz Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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