yajl-ruby is a C binding to the YAJL JSON parsing and generation library. The 1.x branch and the 2.x branch of `yajl` contain an integer overflow which leads to subsequent heap memory corruption when dealing with large (~2GB) inputs. The reallocation logic at `yajl_buf.c#L64` may result in the `need` 32bit integer wrapping to 0 when `need` approaches a value of 0x80000000 (i.e. ~2GB of data), which results in a reallocation of buf->alloc into a small heap chunk. These integers are declared as `size_t` in the 2.x branch of `yajl`, which practically prevents the issue from triggering on 64bit platforms, however this does not preclude this issue triggering on 32bit builds on which `size_t` is a 32bit integer. Subsequent population of this under-allocated heap chunk is based on the original buffer size, leading to heap memory corruption. This vulnerability mostly impacts process availability. Maintainers believe exploitation for arbitrary code execution is unlikely. A patch is available and anticipated to be part of yajl-ruby version 1.4.2. As a workaround, avoid passing large inputs to YAJL.
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Advisories
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Debian DLA |
DLA-3492-1 | yajl security update |
Debian DLA |
DLA-3516-1 | burp security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2022-1773 | yajl-ruby is a C binding to the YAJL JSON parsing and generation library. The 1.x branch and the 2.x branch of `yajl` contain an integer overflow which leads to subsequent heap memory corruption when dealing with large (~2GB) inputs. The reallocation logic at `yajl_buf.c#L64` may result in the `need` 32bit integer wrapping to 0 when `need` approaches a value of 0x80000000 (i.e. ~2GB of data), which results in a reallocation of buf->alloc into a small heap chunk. These integers are declared as `size_t` in the 2.x branch of `yajl`, which practically prevents the issue from triggering on 64bit platforms, however this does not preclude this issue triggering on 32bit builds on which `size_t` is a 32bit integer. Subsequent population of this under-allocated heap chunk is based on the original buffer size, leading to heap memory corruption. This vulnerability mostly impacts process availability. Maintainers believe exploitation for arbitrary code execution is unlikely. A patch is available and anticipated to be part of yajl-ruby version 1.4.2. As a workaround, avoid passing large inputs to YAJL. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-jj47-x69x-mxrm | Buffer Overflow in yajl-ruby |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6233-1 | YAJL vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6233-2 | YAJL vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2025-04-22T18:17:37.564Z
Reserved: 2022-02-10T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2022-24795
Updated: 2024-08-03T04:20:50.514Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2022-04-05T16:15:14.050
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:51:06.827
Link: CVE-2022-24795
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