USN-2461-2

Stanisław Pitucha and Jonathan Gray discovered that libyaml-libyaml-perl did not properly handle wrapped strings. An attacker could create specially crafted YAML data to trigger an assert, causing a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libyaml-libyaml-perl

Package

Name: libyaml-libyaml-perl
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libyaml-libyaml-perl@0.41-5ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.41-5ubuntu0.14.04.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.38-3

0.41-1

0.41-4

0.41-5

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.41-5ubuntu0.14.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libyaml-libyaml-perl"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2014-9130"
        }
    ]
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2461-2.json"