Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package yaml-cpp  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-YAMLCPP-10078529
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed15 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6292  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. An issue was discovered in singledocparser.cpp in yaml-cpp (aka LibYaml-C++) 0.6.2. Stack Exhaustion occurs in YAML::SingleDocParser, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive stack frames: HandleCompactMap, HandleMap, HandleFlowSequence, HandleSequence, HandleNode. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a cpp file.

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