Summary
Jonathan Gray and Stanislaw Pitucha
found an assertion failure in the way wrapped strings are parsed in LibYAML, a fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into an application using libyaml could cause the application to crash.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy),
this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.4-2+deb7u5.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.6-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.6-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your libyaml packages.
Affected
libyaml on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software
version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-9130 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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