pyyaml: CVE-2017-18342

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-18342  

Debian Bug report logs - #902878
pyyaml: CVE-2017-18342

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 17:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed-upstream, security, upstream

Found in version pyyaml/3.12-1

Forwarded to https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/pull/74

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: pyyaml: CVE-2017-18342
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:44:17 +0200
Source: pyyaml
Version: 3.12-1
Severity: normal
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/pull/74

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for pyyaml. Please see the
notes in the security tracker to see why this got a CVE assigned now.
The bug is filled to track the "fixed version" rebased to 4.1 once it
gets uploaded to Debian. There is no action to be taken for older
releases.

CVE-2017-18342[0]:
| In PyYAML before 4.1, the yaml.load() API could execute arbitrary code.
| In other words, yaml.safe_load is not used.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18342
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18342

Regards,
Salvatore



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