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RUSTSEC-2018-0006: Uncontrolled recursion leads to abort in deserialization #127

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Uncontrolled recursion leads to abort in deserialization

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Package yaml-rust
Version 0.3.5
URL chyh1990/yaml-rust#109
Date 2018-09-17
Patched versions >=0.4.1

Affected versions of this crate did not prevent deep recursion while
deserializing data structures.

This allows an attacker to make a YAML file with deeply nested structures
that causes an abort while deserializing it.

The flaw was corrected by checking the recursion depth.

Note: clap 2.33 is not affected by this because it uses yaml-rust
in a way that doesn't trigger the vulnerability. More specifically:

  1. The input to the YAML parser is always trusted - is included at compile
    time via include_str!.

  2. The nesting level is never deep enough to trigger the overflow in practice
    (at most 5).

See advisory page for additional details.

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