Advisory Published

USN-6233-1: YAJL vulnerabilities

First published: Tue Jul 18 2023(Updated: )

It was discovered that YAJL was not properly performing bounds checks when decoding a string with escape sequences. If a user or automated system using YAJL were tricked into processing specially crafted input, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (application abort). (CVE-2017-16516) It was discovered that YAJL was not properly handling memory allocation when dealing with large inputs, which could lead to heap memory corruption. If a user or automated system using YAJL were tricked into running a specially crafted large input, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-24795) It was discovered that memory leaks existed in one of the YAJL parsing functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion). (CVE-2023-33460)

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/libyajl2<2.1.0-2ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1
2.1.0-2ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1
=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libyajl2<2.1.0-2ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1
2.1.0-2ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1
=16.04
All of
ubuntu/libyajl2<2.0.4-4ubuntu0.1~esm1
2.0.4-4ubuntu0.1~esm1
=14.04

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