Mageia alert MGASA-2019-0125 (python-yaml)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2019-0125: Updated python-yaml packages fix security vulnerability 
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Fri, 5 Apr 2019 20:13:53 +0200
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MGASA-2019-0125 - Updated python-yaml packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Apr 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0125.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2017-18342

Description:
It was found that using yaml.load() API on untrusted input could lead to
arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-18342).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23242
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1...

SRPMS:
- 6/core/python-yaml-5.1-1.1.mga6