| Name | CVE-2023-33460 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3478-1, DLA-3492-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1039984, 1059316, 1059317 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| epics-base (PTS) | bookworm | 7.0.3.1-4 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 7.0.8.1+dfsg1-6 | vulnerable |
| r-cran-jsonlite (PTS) | bullseye | 1.7.2+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.8.4+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 1.8.9+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| ruby-yajl (PTS) | bullseye | 1.4.1-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 1.4.3-1 | fixed |
| yajl (PTS) | bullseye | 2.1.0-3+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.1.0-3+deb12u2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.1.0-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/issues/250
Introduced with: https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/commit/cfa9f8fcb12d80dd5ebf94f5e6a607aab4d225fb (2.0.0)
The original fix uploaded as 2.1.0-3.1 was incomplete.
[bookworm] - epics-base <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - epics-base <postponed> (Minor issue; fix only after newer releases got a fix)
[bookworm] - r-cran-jsonlite <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - r-cran-jsonlite <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - r-cran-jsonlite <postponed> (Minor issue; fix only after newer releases got a fix)
- ruby-yajl <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present; embeds not-affected old yajl version)
ruby-yajl embeds yajl version 1.0.12 (https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/blob/master/ext/yajl/api/yajl_version.h)
r-cran-jsonlite: https://github.com/jeroen/jsonlite/issues/426
r-cran-jsonlite: https://github.com/jeroen/jsonlite/pull/421
r-cran-jsonlite: https://github.com/jeroen/jsonlite/commit/e8965dfead9f270ff8d7bb3029e86dee866d407d (v1.8.8)