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.

The version of AHV installed on the remote host is prior to 20220304.480. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AHV-20230302.2008 advisory.

  - Under some circumstances, this weakness allows a user who has access to run the ps utility on a machine,     the ability to write almost unlimited amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap. (CVE-2023-4016)

  - 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)

  - A flaw was found in glibc. When the getaddrinfo function is called with the AF_UNSPEC address family and     the system is configured with no-aaaa mode via /etc/resolv.conf, a DNS response via TCP larger than 2048     bytes can potentially disclose stack contents through the function returned address data, and may cause a     crash. (CVE-2023-4527)

  - A flaw was found in glibc. In an extremely rare situation, the getaddrinfo function may access memory that     has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when a NSS module     implements only the _nss_*_gethostbyname2_r and _nss_*_getcanonname_r hooks without implementing the
    _nss_*_gethostbyname3_r hook. The resolved name should return a large number of IPv6 and IPv4, and the     call to the getaddrinfo function should have the AF_INET6 address family with AI_CANONNAME, AI_ALL and     AI_V4MAPPED as flags. (CVE-2023-4806)

  - A flaw was found in glibc. In an uncommon situation, the gaih_inet function may use memory that has been     freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when the getaddrinfo function is     called and the hosts database in /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured with SUCCESS=continue or SUCCESS=merge.
    (CVE-2023-4813)

  - A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the     GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted     GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variables when launching binaries with SUID permission to execute code with     elevated privileges. (CVE-2023-4911)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the yajl package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - yajl: heap-based buffer overflow when handling large inputs due to an integer overflow (CVE-2022-24795)

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:6551 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2580 advisory.

    Yet Another JSON Library (YAJL) is a small event-driven (SAX-style) JSON parser written in ANSI C, and a     small validating JSON generator.

    Security Fix(es):

    * yajl: Memory leak in yajl_tree_parse function (CVE-2023-33460)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2063 advisory.

    Yet Another JSON Library (YAJL) is a small event-driven (SAX-style) JSON parser written in ANSI C, and a     small validating JSON generator.

    Security Fix(es):

    * yajl: heap-based buffer overflow when handling large inputs due to an integer overflow (CVE-2022-24795)

    * yajl: Memory leak in yajl_tree_parse function (CVE-2023-33460)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the yajl-2.1.0-22.el9 build changelog.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6233-2 advisory.

    USN-6233-1 fixed vulnerabilities in YAJL. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 20.04     LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04.



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:7057 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-7057 advisory.

    - fix CVE-2023-33460

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-6551 advisory.

    - fix CVE-2023-33460

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7057 advisory.

    Yet Another JSON Library (YAJL) is a small event-driven (SAX-style) JSON parser written in ANSI C, and a     small validating JSON generator.

    Security Fix(es):

    * yajl: Memory leak in yajl_tree_parse function (CVE-2023-33460)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2023:7057 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6551 advisory.

    Yet Another JSON Library (YAJL) is a small event-driven (SAX-style) JSON parser written in ANSI C, and a     small validating JSON generator.

    Security Fix(es):

    * yajl: Memory leak in yajl_tree_parse function (CVE-2023-33460)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:3301-1 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of yajl installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.4-4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2182 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-279 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3516 advisory.

  - In the yajl-ruby gem 1.3.0 for Ruby, when a crafted JSON file is supplied to Yajl::Parser.new.parse, the     whole ruby process crashes with a SIGABRT in the yajl_string_decode function in yajl_encode.c. This     results in the whole ruby process terminating and potentially a denial of service. (CVE-2017-16516)

  - 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. (CVE-2022-24795)

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-852b377773 advisory.

    Security fix for memory leak(s) leading to denial of service (CVE-2023-33460).
    Security fix for integer overflow leading to heap corruption (CVE-2022-24795)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-0b0bb84049 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2023-33460a

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6233-1 advisory.

    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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-00572178e1 advisory.

    Security fix for memory leak(s) leading to denial of service (CVE-2023-33460).
    Security fix for integer overflow leading to heap corruption (CVE-2022-24795)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3492 advisory.

  - In the yajl-ruby gem 1.3.0 for Ruby, when a crafted JSON file is supplied to Yajl::Parser.new.parse, the     whole ruby process crashes with a SIGABRT in the yajl_string_decode function in yajl_encode.c. This     results in the whole ruby process terminating and potentially a denial of service. (CVE-2017-16516)

  - 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. (CVE-2022-24795)

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3478 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of yajl installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-33460 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-214 advisory.

  - 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)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
206825	Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-20230302.2008)	Nessus	Misc.	high
206824	Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-20230302.101026)	Nessus	Misc.	critical
206823	Nutanix AHV : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AHV-20230302.100173)	Nessus	Misc.	critical
203651	Photon OS 5.0: Yajl PHSA-2023-5.0-0096	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
199621	RHEL 8 : yajl (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196982	Rocky Linux 9 : yajl (RLSA-2023:6551)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	medium
196147	RHEL 7 : yajl (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
194829	RHEL 8 : yajl (RHSA-2024:2580)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
193894	RHEL 8 : yajl (RHSA-2024:2063)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
191373	CentOS 9 : yajl-2.1.0-22.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
186986	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : YAJL vulnerabilities (USN-6233-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
186405	Rocky Linux 8 : yajl (RLSA-2023:7057)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	medium
186129	Oracle Linux 8 : yajl (ELSA-2023-7057)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
185858	Oracle Linux 9 : yajl (ELSA-2023-6551)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
185703	RHEL 8 : yajl (RHSA-2023:7057)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
185630	CentOS 8 : yajl (CESA-2023:7057)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
185123	RHEL 9 : yajl (RHSA-2023:6551)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
179820	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libyajl (SUSE-SU-2023:3301-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
179789	Amazon Linux 2 : yajl (ALAS-2023-2182)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
179748	Amazon Linux 2023 : yajl, yajl-devel (ALAS2023-2023-279)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
179386	Debian DLA-3516-1 : burp - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
178918	Fedora 37 : yajl (2023-852b377773)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
178698	Fedora 38 : R-jsonlite (2023-0b0bb84049)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
178443	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : YAJL vulnerabilities (USN-6233-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
178323	Fedora 38 : yajl (2023-00572178e1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
178173	Debian DLA-3492-1 : yajl - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
177886	Debian DLA-3478-1 : yajl - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
177818	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: yajl (CVE-2023-33460)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	medium
177680	Amazon Linux 2023 : yajl, yajl-devel (ALAS2023-2023-214)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium

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