vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-11692: yaml-cpp: Denial of service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 30, 2017
Added
Jul 28, 2020
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

The function "Token& Scanner::peek" in scanner.cpp in yaml-cpp 0.5.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit) via a '!2' string.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-cpp-yaml-cpp
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