cve-2021-4235
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-27 21:13
Modified
2024-08-03 17:23
Severity
Summary
Denial of service in gopkg.in/yaml.v2
References
SourceURLTags
security@golang.orghttps://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/commit/bb4e33bf68bf89cad44d386192cbed201f35b241Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@golang.orghttps://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/pull/375Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@golang.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00001.html
security@golang.orghttps://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2021-0061Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
gopkg.in/yaml.v2gopkg.in/yaml.v2
github.com/go-yaml/yamlgithub.com/go-yaml/yaml
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