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CVE-2023-33460

Published: 6 June 2023

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
alexmurray
argyll and r-cran-jsonlite appear to vendor a copy of yajl
mdeslaur
as of 2023-06-07, there is no fix available from the upstream
yajl project

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
argyll
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

jammy Needs triage

kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
mantic Needs triage

noble Needs triage

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

r-cran-jsonlite
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

jammy Needs triage

kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
mantic Needs triage

noble Needs triage

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

yajl
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (2.1.0-2ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
focal
Released (2.1.0-3ubuntu0.20.04.1)
jammy
Released (2.1.0-3ubuntu0.22.04.1)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
lunar
Released (2.1.0-3ubuntu0.23.04.1)
mantic Not vulnerable
(2.1.0-5)
noble Not vulnerable
(2.1.0-5)
trusty
Released (2.0.4-4ubuntu0.1~esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
upstream
Released (2.1.0-3+deb10u2)
xenial
Released (2.1.0-2ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
Patches:
other: https://github.com/openEuler-BaseService/yajl/commit/3d65cb0c6db4d433e5e42ee7d91d8a04e21337cf
other: https://github.com/openEuler-BaseService/yajl/commit/23a122eddaa28165a6c219000adcc31ff9a8a698

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H