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GHSA-m75h-cghq-c8h5

Heap Based Buffer Overflow in libyaml

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2013-6393

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npm libyaml < 0.2.3 0.2.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Versions 0.2.2 and earlier depend on native libyaml version 0.1.5 or earlier. As such, they are affected by a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability that may result in a crash or arbitrary code execution when parsing YAML tags. ## Recommendation - Update to version 0.2.3 that includes a version of LibYAML that contains a fix for this issue.

References

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