ubuntu · CVE-2018-20573

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Priority: low Published: 2018-12-28 16:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 12:08:18 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2018-20573 low priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (yaml-cpp, yaml-cpp0.3), 38 status rows across 19 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 15, not-affected 11, ignored 4, needed 4, needs-triage 3, released 1.

Description:

The Scanner::EnsureTokensInQueue function in yaml-cpp (aka LibYaml-C++) 0.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted YAML file.

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