Description
yajl-ruby is a C binding to the YAJL JSON parsing and generation library. 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. This vulnerability mostly impacts process availability. Maintainers believe exploitation for arbitrary code execution is unlikely. A patch is available and anticipated to be part of yajl-ruby version 1.4.2. As a workaround, avoid passing large inputs to YAJL.
Published: 2022-04-05
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: 1.9% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3492-1 yajl security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3516-1 burp security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-1773 yajl-ruby is a C binding to the YAJL JSON parsing and generation library. 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. This vulnerability mostly impacts process availability. Maintainers believe exploitation for arbitrary code execution is unlikely. A patch is available and anticipated to be part of yajl-ruby version 1.4.2. As a workaround, avoid passing large inputs to YAJL.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-jj47-x69x-mxrm Buffer Overflow in yajl-ruby
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6233-1 YAJL vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6233-2 YAJL vulnerabilities
History

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Eus
Yajl-ruby Project Yajl-ruby
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-22T18:17:37.564Z

Reserved: 2022-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-24795

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Updated: 2024-08-03T04:20:50.514Z

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Status : Modified

Published: 2022-04-05T16:15:14.050

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:51:06.827

Link: CVE-2022-24795

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-24795 - Bugzilla

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