7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.01 Low
EPSS
Percentile
83.4%
NOTE: A previous patch, 1.4.2, fixed the heap memory issue, but could still lead to a DoS infinite loop. Please update to version 1.4.3
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.
We rate this as a moderate severity vulnerability which mostly impacts process availability as we believe exploitation for arbitrary code execution to be unlikely.
Patched in yajl-ruby 1.4.3
Avoid passing large inputs to YAJL
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
github.com/advisories/GHSA-jj47-x69x-mxrm
github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/blob/7168bd79b888900aa94523301126f968a93eb3a6/ext/yajl/yajl_buf.c#L64
github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/commit/7168bd79b888900aa94523301126f968a93eb3a6
github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/security/advisories/GHSA-jj47-x69x-mxrm
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/yajl-ruby/CVE-2022-24795.yml
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KLE3C4CECEJ4EUYI56KXI6OWACWXX7WN/
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YO32YDJ74DADC7CMJNLSLBVWN5EXGF5J/
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24795
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.01 Low
EPSS
Percentile
83.4%