diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libyaml/files/libyaml-CVE-2014-9130.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libyaml/files/libyaml-CVE-2014-9130.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c4a00ef3e..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libyaml/files/libyaml-CVE-2014-9130.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# HG changeset patch
-# User Kirill Simonov <xi@resolvent.net>
-# Date 1417197312 21600
-# Node ID 2b9156756423e967cfd09a61d125d883fca6f4f2
-# Parent  053f53a381ff6adbbc93a31ab7fdee06a16c8a33
-Removed invalid simple key assertion (thank to Jonathan Gray).
-
-The patch comes from 
-
-https://bitbucket.org/xi/libyaml/commits/2b9156756423e967cfd09a61d125d883fca6f4f2
-
-Upstream-Status: Backport
-
-Signed-off-by: Yue Tao <yue.tao@windriver.com>
-
-diff -r 053f53a381ff -r 2b9156756423 src/scanner.c
---- a/src/scanner.c	Wed Mar 26 13:55:54 2014 -0500
-+++ b/src/scanner.c	Fri Nov 28 11:55:12 2014 -0600
-@@ -1106,13 +1106,6 @@
-             && parser->indent == (ptrdiff_t)parser->mark.column);
- 
-     /*
--     * A simple key is required only when it is the first token in the current
--     * line.  Therefore it is always allowed.  But we add a check anyway.
--     */
--
--    assert(parser->simple_key_allowed || !required);    /* Impossible. */
--
--    /*
-      * If the current position may start a simple key, save it.
-      */
- 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libyaml/libyaml_0.1.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libyaml/libyaml_0.1.6.bb
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index b0155774d2..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libyaml/libyaml_0.1.6.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "LibYAML is a YAML 1.1 parser and emitter written in C."
-DESCRIPTION = "LibYAML is a C library for parsing and emitting data in YAML 1.1, \
-a human-readable data serialization format. "
-HOMEPAGE = "http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML"
-SECTION = "libs/devel"
-
-LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=6015f088759b10e0bc2bf64898d4ae17"
-
-SRC_URI = "http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-${PV}.tar.gz \
-           file://libyaml-CVE-2014-9130.patch \
-          "
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "5fe00cda18ca5daeb43762b80c38e06e"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7da6971b4bd08a986dd2a61353bc422362bd0edcc67d7ebaac68c95f74182749"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/yaml-${PV}"
-
-inherit autotools
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"