ALAS2-2023-2182


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2182
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-03 18:09 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-08-08 22:03 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2023-33460)


Affected Packages:

yajl


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update yajl to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    yajl-2.0.4-4.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    yajl-devel-2.0.4-4.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    yajl-debuginfo-2.0.4-4.amzn2.0.3.aarch64

i686:
    yajl-2.0.4-4.amzn2.0.3.i686
    yajl-devel-2.0.4-4.amzn2.0.3.i686
    yajl-debuginfo-2.0.4-4.amzn2.0.3.i686

src:
    yajl-2.0.4-4.amzn2.0.3.src

x86_64:
    yajl-2.0.4-4.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    yajl-devel-2.0.4-4.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    yajl-debuginfo-2.0.4-4.amzn2.0.3.x86_64