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Debian DSA-2890-2 Critical: LibYAML Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2014
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Tackling a security vulnerability in libyaml; essential patch for Debian users to thwart potential remote attacks.
Ivan Fratric of the Google Security Team discovered a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in LibYAML, a fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.1.3-1+deb6u4.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.1.4-2+deb7u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libyaml packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: libyaml
CVE ID: CVE-2014-2525

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