Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-3115 pyyaml - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
Jonathan Gray and Stanislaw Pitucha found an assertion failure in theway wrapped strings are parsed in Python-YAML, a YAML parser and emitterfor Python. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into anapplication using python-yaml could cause the application to crash.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3115