Applications using libyaml-libyaml-perl could be made to crash if they received specially crafted input.
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.
12 January 2015
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Applications using libyaml-libyaml-perl could be made to crash if they received specially crafted input.
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.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart applications using libyaml-libyaml-perl to make all the necessary changes.
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