USN-208-1: graphviz vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-208-1

17th October, 2005

graphviz vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 5.04

Details

Javier Fern�ez-Sanguino Pe�iscovered that the "dotty" tool
created and used temporary files in an insecure way. A local attacker
could exploit this with a symlink attack to create or overwrite
arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running dotty.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 5.04:
graphviz

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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References

CVE-2005-2965