MGASA-2014-0040

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    MGASA-2014-0040

    Published: 8 Feb 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-6393

    Summary: Updated yaml packages fix CVE-2013-6393

    Details: Updated libyaml packages fix security vulnerabilities: Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered a heap-based buffer overflow flaw in LibYAML, a fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library. A remote attacker could provide a YAML document with a specially-crafted tag that, when parsed by an application using libyaml, would cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application (CVE-2013-6393).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0040.html, http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2850, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12583

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: yaml

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/yaml?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.1.5-1.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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