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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6292

An issue was discovered in singledocparser.cpp in yaml-cpp (aka LibYaml-C++) 0.6.2. Stack Exhaustion occurs in YAML::SingleDocParser, and there is a s...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

An issue was discovered in singledocparser.cpp in yaml-cpp (aka LibYaml-C++) 0.6.2. Stack Exhaustion occurs in YAML::SingleDocParser, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: HandleCompactMap, HandleMap, HandleFlowSequence, HandleSequence, HandleNode. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a cpp file.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 yaml-cpp

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.3-1"}]}]

Debian:13 yaml-cpp

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.3-1"}]}]

Debian:14 yaml-cpp

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.6.3-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org