Bug 2221249 (CVE-2023-33460)

Summary:	CVE-2023-33460 yajl: Memory leak in yajl_tree_parse function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	adudiak, berrange, jburrell, jnovy, nweather, stcannon, trathi, yguenane
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Hardware:	All
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the yajl library, which exists due to a memory leak within the yajl_tree_parse() function. This flaw allows a remote attacker to parse malicious JSON input to cause out-of-memory in the server, causing a crash, resulting in a denial of service attack.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2221252, 2221253, 2222242, 2221250, 2222241
Bug Blocks:	2221254

Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-07-07 16:29:51 UTC

There's a memory leak in yajl 2.1.0 with use of yajl_tree_parse function. which will cause out-of-memory in server and cause crash.

References:

https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/issues/250

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2023-07-07 16:30:03 UTC

Created yajl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2221250]

Comment 5 TEJ RATHI 2023-07-12 11:41:57 UTC

Created R-jsonlite tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2222241]