The SingleDocParser::HandleNode function in yaml-cpp (aka LibYaml-C++) 0.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted YAML file.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The SingleDocParser::HandleNode function in yaml-cpp (aka LibYaml-C++) 0.5.3 allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted YAML file.
    (CVE-2017-5950)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Security fix for CVE-2017-5950.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Rebuild for yaml-cpp 0.6.0 to address CVE-2017-5950.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for yaml-cpp fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2017-5950: Stack overflow in     SingleDocParser::HandleNode() function (bsc#1032144)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254635	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-5950	Nessus	Misc.	medium
120306	Fedora 29 : yaml-cpp (2018-27ec51c0dd)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
120253	Fedora 28 : yaml-cpp (2018-1758d97170)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
118045	Fedora 27 : calamares / fawkes / librime / mongodb / pdns (2018-22776e8ca9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
117719	Fedora 27 : yaml-cpp (2018-c2499e6025)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
107214	SUSE SLED12 Security Update : yaml-cpp (SUSE-SU-2018:0631-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2017-5950

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