sebastienrousseau/serde_yml · Security
serde_yml crate is unsound and unmaintained
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-hhw4-xg65-fp2x
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Using serde_yml::ser::Serializer.emitter can cause a segmentation fault, which is unsound.
The GitHub project for serde_yml was archived after unsoundness issues were raised.
If you rely on this crate, it is highly recommended switching to a maintained alternative.
Recommended alternatives
serde_norway- Maintained fork ofserde_yaml, usingunsafe-libyaml-norwayserde_yaml_ng- Maintained fork ofserde_yaml, using unmaintainedunsafe-libyaml
Incomplete pure Rust alternatives
These implementation do not rely on C libyaml.
CWEs
- CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write