Vulnerability Bulletins |
DSA-2850 libyaml - heap-based buffer overflow |
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| Affected software | Debian |
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Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered aheap-based buffer overflow flaw in LibYAML, a fast YAML 1.1 parser andemitter library. A remote attacker could provide a YAML document with aspecially-crafted tag that, when parsed by an application using libyaml,would cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrarycode with the privileges of the user running the application. More info: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2850 |
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