Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3115 pyyaml – security update

Jonathan Gray and Stanislaw Pitucha found an assertion failure in the
way wrapped strings are parsed in Python-YAML, a YAML parser and emitter
for Python. An attacker able to load specially crafted YAML input into an
application using python-yaml could cause the application to crash.

DSA-3112 sox – security update

Michele Spagnuolo of the Google Security Team dicovered two heap-based
buffer overflows in SoX, the Swiss Army knife of sound processing
programs. A specially crafted wav file could cause an application using
SoX to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

DSA-3111 cpio – security update

Michal Zalewski discovered an out of bounds write issue in cpio, a tool
for creating and extracting cpio archive files. In the process of
fixing that issue, the cpio developers found and fixed additional
range checking and null pointer dereference issues.