CVE-2011-4103 Information

Description

emitters.py in Django Piston before 0.2.3 and 0.2.x before 0.2.2.1 does not properly deserialize YAML data which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Python code via vectors related to the yaml.load method.

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2344 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/01/10 https://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/commits/91bdaec89543/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750658 https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/nov/01/piston-and-tastypie-security-releases/