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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6233-2

Posted Dec 15, 2023

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 6233-2 - 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. 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 .

tags | advisory, denial of service, vulnerability

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2017-16516, CVE-2022-24795, CVE-2023-33460

SHA-256 | 1a79b120418384147adf55646f48f838ca04a6cd9e3d760d119309f406d0434a

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