Buffer Overflow and Integer Overflow in yajl-ruby
Summary
Buffer Overflow and Integer Overflow in yajl-ruby
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24795 burp
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-24795 yajl Fixed in: 2.0.4-4ubuntu0.1~esm1
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory lists.fedoraproject.org
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- patch github.com
- web github.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web lists.debian.org