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Fedora 21 : perl-YAML-LibYAML-0.54-1.fc21 (2014-16143)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79915

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

An assertion failure was found in the way the libyaml library parsed wrapped strings. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into an application using libyaml could cause the application to crash.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected perl-YAML-LibYAML package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169369

http://www.nessus.org/u?8a4eb723

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79915

File Name: fedora_2014-16143.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-yaml-libyaml, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9130

BID: 71349

FEDORA: 2014-16143