Bug 2266790 (CVE-2024-25713)

Summary:	CVE-2024-25713 yyjson: double free leading to remote code execution
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Rohit Keshri <rkeshri>
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Description Rohit Keshri 2024-02-29 04:45:34 UTC

yyjson through 0.8.0 has a double free, leading to remote code execution in some cases, because the pool_free function lacks loop checks. (pool_free is part of the pool series allocator, along with pool_malloc and pool_realloc.)

https://github.com/ibireme/yyjson/security/advisories/GHSA-q4m7-9pcm-fpxh

Comment 1 Rohit Keshri 2024-02-29 04:45:56 UTC

Created yyjson tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2266791]