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GHSA-39vw-qp34-rmwf: Uncontrolled recursion leads to abort in deserialization

August 25, 2021 (updated June 13, 2023)

Affected versions of this crate did not properly check for recursion while deserializing aliases. This allows an attacker to make a YAML file with an alias referring to itself causing an abort. The flaw was corrected by checking the recursion depth.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-39vw-qp34-rmwf
  • github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml
  • github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml/commit/b93aff6e904cffbbfd1f421b82f6dcc5ca19a4fd
  • github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml/pull/105
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0005.html

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 0.6.0-rc1 before 0.8.4

Fixed versions

  • 0.8.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.8.4 or above.

Weakness

  • CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

Source file

cargo/serde_yaml/GHSA-39vw-qp34-rmwf.yml

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