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yajl — security 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.
- Products
- yajl
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.1.0-r9
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-33460
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 14:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2023-33460
yajl
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-r9
yajl
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-r9
yajl
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-r9
yajl
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-r9
yajl
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-r9
yajl
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-r9
Complete source record
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