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CVE-2014-9130

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-12-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

scanner.c in LibYAML 0.1.5 and 0.1.6, as used in the YAML-LibYAML (aka YAML-XS) module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and crash) via vectors involving line-wrapping.

Affected products

• Pyyaml Libyaml: 0.1.5, 0.1.6

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0508.html
• http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0100.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00078.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00050.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0100.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0112.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0260.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59947
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60944
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62164
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62174
• http://secunia.com/advisories/62176

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