CVE-2013-6393

The yamlparserscantaguri function in scanner.c in LibYAML before 0.1.5 performs an incorrect cast, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted tags in a YAML document, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow...

Heap overflow

The yamlparserscantaguri function in scanner.c in LibYAML before 0.1.5 performs an incorrect cast, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted tags in a YAML document, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : libyaml vulnerability (USN-2098-1)

Florian Weimer discovered that LibYAML incorrectly handled certain large yaml documents. An attacker could use this issue to cause LibYAML to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description blo...