MGASA-2014-0154

Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / MGASA-2014-0154

MGASA-2014-0154

Summary: Updated perl-YAML-LibYAML package fixes security vulnerabilies

Details: Updated perl-YAML-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). Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team discovered a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in LibYAML, a fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted YAML document 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-2014-2525). The perl-YAML-LibYAML package is being updated as it contains an embedded copy of LibYAML.

References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0154.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12984, http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2885, http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2870