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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:07:31 +0100
From: Andrea Barisani <lcars@...rt.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, ocert-announce@...ts.ocert.org,
bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: [oCERT-2014-003] LibYAML input sanitization errors
#2014-003 LibYAML input sanitization errors
Description:
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.
Affected version:
LibYAML <= 0.1.5
Fixed version:
LibYAML >= 0.1.6
Credit: vulnerability report received from Ivan Fratric of the
Google Security Team.
CVE: CVE-2014-2525
Timeline:
2014-03-11: vulnerability report received
2014-03-14: maintainer provides patch for review
2014-03-17: reporter confirms patch
2014-03-17: disclosure coordinated on 2014-03-26
2014-03-18: contacted affected vendors
2014-03-18: assigned CVE
2014-03-26: LibYAML 0.1.6 released
2014-03-26: advisory release
References:
http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML
https://bitbucket.org/xi/libyaml/commits/bce8b60f0b9af69fa9fab3093d0a41ba243de048
Permalink:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2014-003.html
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