CVE-2022-24795 (GCVE-0-2022-24795)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-05 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-22 18:17
VLAI?
Title
Buffer Overflow and Integer Overflow in yajl-ruby
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| brianmario | yajl-ruby |
Affected:
<= 1.4.1
|
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