Amazon Linux AMI update for yajl



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2022-24795
CWE-ID CWE-122
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Amazon Linux AMI
Operating systems & Components / Operating system

yajl
Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component

Vendor Amazon Web Services

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Heap-based buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU64001

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24795

CWE-ID: CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when handling large inputs. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service attack.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages:

aarch64:
    yajl-debuginfo-2.1.0-16.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
    yajl-debugsource-2.1.0-16.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
    yajl-devel-2.1.0-16.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64
    yajl-2.1.0-16.amzn2023.0.4.aarch64

src:
    yajl-2.1.0-16.amzn2023.0.4.src

x86_64:
    yajl-debuginfo-2.1.0-16.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64
    yajl-devel-2.1.0-16.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64
    yajl-debugsource-2.1.0-16.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64
    yajl-2.1.0-16.amzn2023.0.4.x86_64

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

yajl: before 2.1.0-16

CPE2.3 External links

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-263.html


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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