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by pifflesnort 4884 days ago
> The YAML vulnerability was not from any 'eval' in the YAML library itself, you realize, right?

> It was from allowing de-serialization to arbitrary classes, when it turned out that some classes had dangerous side-effects merely from instantiation -- including in some cases, 'eval' behavior, yes, but the eval behavior wasn't in YAML, it was in other classes, where it could be triggered by instantiation.

That is eval behavior.