An issue was discovered in the yaml-rust crate before 0.4.1 for Rust. There is uncontrolled recursion during deserialization.
Weakness
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yaml-rust | Yaml-rust_project | * | 0.4.1 (excluding) |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | disco | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | eoan | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | groovy | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | hirsute | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | impish | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | kinetic | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | lunar | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | oracular | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | plucky | * |
| Rust-yaml-rust | Ubuntu | trusty | * |