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Fedora 27: 2018-c2499e6025 Moderate: yaml-cpp Stack Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical announcement regarding a significant vulnerability identified in the yaml-cpp library for Fedora 27. Prompt mitigation measures are advised.
Security fix for CVE-2017-5950.

Summary

yaml-cpp is a YAML parser and emitter in C++ written around the YAML 1.2 spec.

Security fix for CVE-2017-5950.

* Sun Sep 16 2018 Richard Shaw - 0.6.1-4

- Add patch for CVE-2017-5950.

* Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.6.1-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Mon Apr 9 2018 Richard Shaw - 0.6.1-2

- Fixes improperly generated cmake config files, RHBZ#1558637.

* Sun Feb 18 2018 Richard Shaw - 0.6.1-1

- Update to 0.6.1.

* Sun Feb 11 2018 Richard Shaw - 0.6.0-1

- Update to 0.6.0.

- Add static library subpackage.

* Fri Feb 9 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.5.3-10

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Jan 31 2018 Richard Shaw - 0.5.3-9

- Install yaml cmake files, fixes RHBZ#1509421.

* Tue Jan 23 2018 Jonathan Wakely - 0.5.3-8

- Rebuilt for Boost 1.66

[ 1 ] Bug #1439677 - CVE-2017-5950 yaml-cpp: Stack-buffer overflow in HandleNode() [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439677

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 0.6.1
Release: 4.fc27
Summary: A YAML parser and emitter for C++

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