Debian DSA-2870-1 : libyaml-libyaml-perl - heap-based buffer overflow

Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered a heap-based buffer overflow flaw in LibYAML, a fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library. A remote attacker could provide a YAML document with a specially crafted tag that, when parsed by an application using libyaml, would cause the...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2870-1 (libyaml-libyaml-perl - heap-based buffer overflow)

Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team discovered a heap-based buffer overflow flaw in LibYAML, a fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library. A remote attacker could provide a YAML document with a specially-crafted tag that, when parsed by an application using libyaml, would cause the...