Debian DLA-127-1 : pyyaml security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82110

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Jonathan Gray and Stanislaw Pitucha found an assertion failure in the way wrapped strings are parsed in Python-YAML, a YAML parser and emitter for Python. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into an application using python-yaml could cause the application to crash.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82110

File Name: debian_DLA-127.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2015

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:debian:debian_linux:python-yaml, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-yaml-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-yaml, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-yaml-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9130

BID: 71349

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