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openSUSE Security Update : perl-YAML-LibYAML (openSUSE-2020-1093)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 139019

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for perl-YAML-LibYAML fixes the following issues :

perl-YAML-LibYAML was updated to 0.69: [bsc#1173703]

 - Security fix: Add $LoadBlessed option to turn on/off loading objects: Default is set to true. Note that, the behavior is unchanged.

 - Clarify documentation about exported functions

 - Dump() was modifying original data, adding a PV to numbers

 - Support standard tags !!str, !!map and !!seq instead of dying.

 - Support JSON::PP::Boolean and boolean.pm via $YAML::XS::Boolean.

 - Fix regex roundtrip. Fix loading of many regexes.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected perl-YAML-LibYAML packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173703

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 139019

File Name: openSUSE-2020-1093.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/28/2020

Updated: 7/28/2020

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-yaml-libyaml, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-yaml-libyaml-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-yaml-libyaml-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2020