Advisories » MGASA-2019-0125

Updated python-yaml packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Apr 2019
Modification date: 05 Apr 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-18342

Description

It was found that using yaml.load() API on untrusted input could lead to
arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-18342).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23242
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/JEX7IPV5P2QJITAMA5Z63GQCZA5I6NVZ/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18342

SRPMS

6/core

• python-yaml-5.1-1.1.mga6