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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-20477: Vulnerability in PyYAML

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-20477: Vulnerability in PyYAML

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/19/2020
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

PyYAML 5.1 through 5.1.2 has insufficient restrictions on the load and load_all functions because of a class deserialization issue, e.g., Popen is a class in the subprocess module. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-18342.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-legacy-library-python-pyyaml-34-5-2-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-legacy-library-python-pyyaml-35-5-2-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-2-pyyaml-26-3-9-11-4-0-0-1-9-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-pyyaml-26-3-9-11-4-0-0-1-9-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-pyyaml-27-5-2-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-pyyaml-34-5-2-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-pyyaml-35-5-2-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-pyyaml-37-5-2-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-python-pyyaml-5-2-11-4-21-0-1-69-0

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