This project might be open to known security vulnerabilities, which can be prevented by tightening the version range of affected dependencies. Find detailed information at the bottom.

Crate verne

Dependencies

(5 total, 4 outdated, 1 possibly insecure)

CrateRequiredLatestStatus
 env_logger^0.40.11.3out of date
 getopts^0.20.2.21up to date
 log^0.30.4.21out of date
 virt^0.20.3.1out of date
 yaml-rust ⚠️^0.30.4.5out of date

Security Vulnerabilities

yaml-rust: Uncontrolled recursion leads to abort in deserialization

RUSTSEC-2018-0006

Affected versions of this crate did not prevent deep recursion while deserializing data structures.

This allows an attacker to make a YAML file with deeply nested structures that causes an abort while deserializing it.

The flaw was corrected by checking the recursion depth.

Note: clap 2.33 is not affected by this because it uses yaml-rust in a way that doesn't trigger the vulnerability. More specifically:

  1. The input to the YAML parser is always trusted - is included at compile time via include_str!.

  2. The nesting level is never deep enough to trigger the overflow in practice (at most 5).