CVE-2018-20573

Summary

CVECVE-2018-20573
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-28 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-01-10 16:13:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Scanner::EnsureTokensInQueue function in yaml-cpp (aka LibYaml-C++) 0.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted YAML file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Yaml-cpp Project Yaml-cpp 0.6.2 All All All
Application Yaml-cpp Project Yaml-cpp 0.6.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Stack Overflow in Scanner::EnsureTokensInQueue() · Issue #655 · jbeder/yaml-cpp · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 751960 OpenSUSE Security Update for yaml-cpp (openSUSE-SU-2022:1073-1)
  • 751995 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for yaml-cpp (SUSE-SU-2022:1073-1)
  • 753861 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for yaml-cpp (SUSE-SU-2023:1740-3)
  • 900191 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for yaml-cpp 0.6.2
  • 901433 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for yaml-cpp (7006-1)
  • 903267 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for yaml-cpp (2692)
  • 906043 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for yaml-cpp (2692-1)

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