Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.12.2023.5944.1
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5944-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'snakeyaml' package(s) announced via the USN-5944-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'snakeyaml' package(s) announced via the USN-5944-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: It was discovered that SnakeYAML did not limit the maximal nested depth for collections when parsing YAML data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted YAML file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using SnakeYAML to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-25857, CVE-2022-38749, CVE-2022-38750) It was discovered that SnakeYAML did not limit the maximal data matched with regular expressions when parsing YAML data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted YAML file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using SnakeYAML to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-38751) Affected Software/OS: 'snakeyaml' package(s) on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.8 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-25857 https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/commits/fc300780da21f4bb92c148bc90257201220cf174 https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/525 https://github.com/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/commit/fc300780da21f4bb92c148bc90257201220cf174 https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGYAML-2806360 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00001.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-38749 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-28 https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/525/got-stackoverflowerror-for-many-open https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47024 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-38750 https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/526/stackoverflow-oss-fuzz-47027 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47027 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-38751 https://bitbucket.org/snakeyaml/snakeyaml/issues/530/stackoverflow-oss-fuzz-47039 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47039
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