| Name | CVE-2022-38749 |
| Description | Using 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3132-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| snakeyaml (PTS) | buster | 1.23-1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 1.23-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.28-1+deb11u2 | fixed |
| trixie, sid, bookworm | 1.33-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
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.