CVE-2012-1152 Information

Description

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the error reporting functionality in the YAML::LibYAML (aka YAML-LibYAML and perl-YAML-LibYAML) module 0.38 for Perl allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via format string specifiers in a (1) YAML stream to the Load function (2) YAML node to the load_node function (3) YAML mapping to the load_mapping function or (4) YAML sequence to the load_sequence function.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661548 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077004.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077023.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077782.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00029.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00078.html http://secunia.com/advisories/48317 http://secunia.com/advisories/50277 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2432 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/09/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/10/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52381 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801738 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73856 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=46507 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75365