FKIE_CVE-2014-2525
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-03-28 15:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:06
Severity
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the yaml_parser_scan_uri_escapes function in LibYAML before 0.1.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long sequence of percent-encoded characters in a URI in a YAML file.
References
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