Bug 1597580 (CVE-2018-13043) - CVE-2018-13043 devscripts: grep-excuses uses YAML:Syck unsafely
Summary: CVE-2018-13043 devscripts: grep-excuses uses YAML:Syck unsafely
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-13043
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1597581 1597582
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-07-03 09:20 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-09-26 05:31:51 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-07-03 09:20:12 UTC 
It was found that grep-excuses uses YAML::Syck without telling YAML::Syck to not bless objects which might lead to running code the author of grep-excuses might not have intended to run.

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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902409
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-07-03 09:20:46 UTC 
Created devscripts tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1597582]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1597581]
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