Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
icrar/ijson
master @ 3a363b8
3
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
Highlights
Denial of Service: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
cextern/yajl: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Memory Corruption: The project incorporates yajl as a submodule, which has historically suffered from critical memory corruption vulnerabilities such as CVE-2023-33460. Failure to track security patches in this dependency exposes the application to remote code execution or severe crashes during JSON parsing.
Denial of Service: A failure to release allocated Py_buffer objects when the parser encounters errors (ijson_yajl_parse) creates a memory leak. Over time, processing malformed or malicious inputs can exhaust system memory, leading to a denial of service.
Denial of Service: Ignoring the return values of Python memory allocation APIs like PyTuple_Pack can cause Null Pointer Dereferences. In out-of-memory environments, this lack of validation results in immediate interpreter crashes.