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Out-of-bounds Write

CVE-2022-41854

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

Those using Snakeyaml to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser runs on user-supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stack overflow. It affects versions of "org.yaml:snakeyaml" prior to 1.32.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-787 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Out-of-bounds write vulnerability is a memory access bug that allows software to write data past the end or before the beginning of the intended buffer. This may result in the corruption of data, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published