Bug 2221249 (CVE-2023-33460) - CVE-2023-33460 yajl: Memory leak in yajl_tree_parse function
Summary: CVE-2023-33460 yajl: Memory leak in yajl_tree_parse function
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-33460
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Depends On: 2221250 2221252 2221253 2222241 2222242
Blocks: 2221254
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-07-07 16:29 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2024-04-30 15:05 UTC (History)
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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.
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:6551 0 None None None 2023-11-07 08:19:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:7057 0 None None None 2023-11-14 15:19:45 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:2063 0 None None None 2024-04-25 15:07:07 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:2580 0 None None None 2024-04-30 15:04:59 UTC

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]
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-07 08:19:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:6551 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6551
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-14 15:19:43 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:7057 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7057
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-25 15:07:06 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:2063 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2063
Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 15:04:58 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:2580 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2580
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