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LibYAML input sanitization errors

Affected packages
	libyaml	<	0.1.6
	mingw32-libyaml	<	0.1.6

Details

VuXML ID	580cc46b-bb1e-11e3-b144-2c4138874f7d
Discovery	2014-03-11
Entry	2014-03-26

oCERT reports:

The LibYAML project is an open source YAML 1.1 parser and emitter written in C.

The library is affected by a heap-based buffer overflow which can lead to arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability is caused by lack of proper expansion for the string passed to the yaml_parser_scan_uri_escapes() function.

A specially crafted YAML file, with a long sequence of percent-encoded characters in a URL, can be used to trigger the overflow.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2014-2525
URL	http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2525