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r-cran-jsonlite, 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
- r-cran-jsonlite, yajl
- Affected versions
- 1.8.4+dfsg-1, 1.8.5+dfsg-1, 1.8.7+dfsg-1, 1.8.8+dfsg-1, 1.8.9+dfsg-1, 1.9.1+dfsg-1, 2.0.0+dfsg-1, 2.0.0+dfsg-2, 2.1.0-3, 2.1.0-3+deb12u1
- Fixed versions
- 1.8.8+dfsg-1, 2.1.0-3+deb12u2, 2.1.0-5
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-33460
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:55 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:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-33460
r-cran-jsonlite
Fixed versions: Not specified
r-cran-jsonlite
Fixed versions: 1.8.8+dfsg-1
r-cran-jsonlite
Fixed versions: 1.8.8+dfsg-1
yajl
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-3+deb12u2
yajl
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-5
yajl
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-5
Complete source record
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