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Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS: USN-2461-1 Denial Of Service in LibYAML

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Recent LibYAML flaw may allow denial of service attacks on Ubuntu platforms; users should promptly update vulnerable versions.
Applications using LibYAML could be made to crash if they received specially crafted input.

Summary

Applications using LibYAML could be made to crash if they received

specially crafted input.

Software Description:

- libyaml: Fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library

Details:

Stanisław Pitucha and Jonathan Gray discovered that LibYAML did not

properly handle wrapped strings. An attacker could create specially

crafted YAML data to trigger an assert, causing a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue software update update instructions ubuntu libyaml

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
  libyaml-0-2                     0.1.6-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libyaml-0-2                     0.1.4-3ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libyaml-0-2                     0.1.4-2ubuntu0.12.04.4

After a standard system update you need to restart applications using
LibYAML to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2461-1

CVE-2014-9130

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January 12, 2015

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue software update update instructions ubuntu libyaml

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libyaml/0.1.6-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libyaml/0.1.4-3ubuntu3.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libyaml/0.1.4-2ubuntu0.12.04.4

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