# CVE-2022-24795: Buffer Overflow and Integer Overflow in yajl-ruby

- Also known as: GHSA-JJ47-X69X-MXRM
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.3
- Published: 2022-04-05 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- brianmario yajl-ruby: through 1.4.1
- yajl-ruby (RubyGems): fixed in 1.4.3

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on brianmario yajl-ruby, yajl-ruby, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/security/advisories/GHSA-jj47-x69x-mxrm
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/commit/7168bd79b888900aa94523301126f968a93eb3a6
- https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby/blob/7168bd79b888900aa94523301126f968a93eb3a6/ext/yajl/yajl_buf.c#L64
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KLE3C4CECEJ4EUYI56KXI6OWACWXX7WN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YO32YDJ74DADC7CMJNLSLBVWN5EXGF5J/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00003.html

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