Medium: snakeyaml

Issue Overview:

Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow. (CVE-2022-38750)

Using snakeYAML to parse untrusted YAML files may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow. (CVE-2022-38751)

Affected Packages:

snakeyaml

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update snakeyaml to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    snakeyaml-1.11-8.amzn2.0.2.noarch  
    snakeyaml-javadoc-1.11-8.amzn2.0.2.noarch  
  
src:  
    snakeyaml-1.11-8.amzn2.0.2.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2022-38750, CVE-2022-38751

Mitre: CVE-2022-38750, CVE-2022-38751