vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-38751: snakeyaml -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 5, 2022
Added
Oct 4, 2022
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow.

Solution

debian-upgrade-snakeyaml
Title
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