Bug#952683: snakeyaml: CVE-2017-18640

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: snakeyaml
Version: 1.25+ds-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://bitbucket.org/asomov/snakeyaml/issues/377
Control: found -1 1.23-1
Control: found -1 1.17-1

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for snakeyaml.

CVE-2017-18640[0]:
| The Alias feature in SnakeYAML 1.18 allows entity expansion during a
| load operation, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18640
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18640
[1] https://bitbucket.org/asomov/snakeyaml/issues/377
[2] https://bitbucket.org/asomov/snakeyaml/commits/b680ce64971d943083012c04690c0ffa9fea6da4

Regards,
Salvatore