ghsa-jj47-x69x-mxrm
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-04-05 15:55
Modified
2022-05-26 18:54
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Buffer Overflow in yajl-ruby
Details

NOTE: A previous patch, 1.4.2, fixed the heap memory issue, but could still lead to a DoS infinite loop. Please update to version 1.4.3

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.

Details

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.

Impact

We rate this as a moderate severity vulnerability which mostly impacts process availability as we believe exploitation for arbitrary code execution to be unlikely.

Patches

Patched in yajl-ruby 1.4.3

Workarounds

Avoid passing large inputs to YAJL

References

https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/blob/7168bd79b888900aa94523301126f968a93eb3a6/ext/yajl/yajl_buf.c#L64

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in yajl-ruby

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      },
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        }
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  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-24795"
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  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-122",
      "CWE-190"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-04-05T15:55:51Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-04-05T16:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "_NOTE: A previous patch, 1.4.2, fixed the heap memory issue, but could still lead to a DoS infinite loop. Please update to version 1.4.3_\n\nThe 1.x branch and the 2.x branch of [yajl](https://github.com/lloyd/yajl) contain an integer overflow which leads to subsequent heap memory corruption when dealing with large (~2GB) inputs.\n\n### Details\n\nThe [reallocation logic at yajl_buf.c#L64](https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/blob/7168bd79b888900aa94523301126f968a93eb3a6/ext/yajl/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-\u003ealloc into a small heap chunk.\n\nThese 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.\n\nSubsequent population of this under-allocated heap chunk is based on the original buffer size, leading to heap memory corruption.\n\n### Impact\n\nWe rate this as a moderate severity vulnerability which mostly impacts process availability as we believe exploitation for arbitrary code execution to be unlikely.\n\n### Patches\n\nPatched in yajl-ruby 1.4.3\n\n### Workarounds\n\nAvoid passing large inputs to YAJL\n\n### References\nhttps://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/blob/7168bd79b888900aa94523301126f968a93eb3a6/ext/yajl/yajl_buf.c#L64\n\n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Open an issue in [yajl-ruby](https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues)\n",
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  "modified": "2022-05-26T18:54:24Z",
  "published": "2022-04-05T15:55:51Z",
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      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html"
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    },
    {
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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}


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