CVE-2022-38749

NameCVE-2022-38749
DescriptionUsing snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3132-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
snakeyaml (PTS)bullseye1.28-1+deb11u2fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm1.33-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
snakeyamlsourcebuster1.23-1+deb10u1DLA-3132-1
snakeyamlsourcebullseye1.28-1+deb11u1
snakeyamlsource(unstable)1.31-1

Notes

https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/525/got-stackoverflowerror-for-many-open
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47024
Also fixed by the patch for CVE-2022-25857.

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