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Medium ALAS2023-2023-375 2 CVEs

Moderate: snakeyaml security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Sep 27, 2023 · Updated Oct 3, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-41854: Those 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 stack overflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack. CVE-2022-38752: 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 stack-overflow.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 snakeyaml 0:1.27-6.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 snakeyaml-javadoc 0:1.27-6.amzn2023.0.3

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-38752.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-41854.html