CVE-2024-25713 yyjson has a Double Free vulnerability

What is CVE-2024-25713?

CVE-2024-25713 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 11 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

yyjson through 0.8.0 has a double free, leading to remote code execution in some cases, because the pool_free function lacks loop checks. (pool_free is part of the pool series allocator, along with pool_malloc and pool_realloc.)

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-25713?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/ibireme/yyjson. It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Ibireme Yyjson.

How do I fix CVE-2024-25713?

Upgrade github.com/ibireme/yyjson to 0.9.0 or later.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2024-25713 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-25713 exists.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q4m7-9pcm-fpxh, GHSA-whx6-m9j4-w2m2.