RSEC-2023-3

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    RSEC-2023-3

    Published: 18 Jul 2023Last Modified: 19 May 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-33460

    Summary: Memory leak vulnerability

    Details: The jsonlite R package is exposed to a vulnerability due to its use of yajl library version 2.1.0. The vulnerability originates from the yajl_tree_parse function within yajl. Attackers can exploit this flaw to cause a memory leak, which will result in out-of-memory in server and lead to a crash.

    References: https://github.com/jeroen/jsonlite/pull/421, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33460, https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/issues/250, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00000.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00013.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KLE3C4CECEJ4EUYI56KXI6OWACWXX7WN/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: jsonlite

    Purl: pkg:cran/jsonlite

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0.9.12
    Fixed -1.8.8

    Affected versions

    0.9.12
    0.9.13
    0.9.14
    0.9.15
    0.9.16
    0.9.17
    0.9.18
    0.9.19
    0.9.20
    0.9.21
    0.9.22

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    RSEC-2023-3 | CVE-DB