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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-18342: PyYAML security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-18342: PyYAML security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/27/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/22/2019
Modified
06/26/2019

Description

In PyYAML before 5.1, the yaml.load() API could execute arbitrary code if used with untrusted data. The load() function has been deprecated in version 5.1 and the 'UnsafeLoader' has been introduced for backward compatibility with the function.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-pyyaml

References

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