CVE-2014-2525 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-2525?

CVE-2014-2525 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 28 Mar 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2525?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Pyyaml Libyaml.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2525?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2014-2525 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2525 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-20787 Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8341 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6438 Other in n/a Critical 9.8

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2525, DSA-2884-1, DSA-2885-1, GHSA-rffm-7xqq-h2v6, MGASA-2014-0150.