vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-33460: Medium priority package update for yajl

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 6, 2023
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Dec 4, 2025

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.
A flaw was found in the yajl library, which exists due to a memory leak within the yajl_tree_parse() function. This flaw allows a remote attacker to parse malicious JSON input to cause out-of-memory in the server, causing a crash, resulting in a denial of service attack.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-yajlamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-yajl-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-yajl-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-yajl-devel
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