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Description

Oj (Optimized JSON) is a JSON parser and Object marshaller packaged as a Ruby gem. In versions prior to 3.17.3, Oj::Doc#each_child, when invoked recursively over a deeply nested JSON document, overflows a fixed-size stack buffer and aborts the process, leading to DoS. In a two-step chain in ext/oj/fast.c, doc_each_child increments doc->where past the where_path[MAX_STACK = 100] array with no bounds check and never restores it (the doc->where-- is missing), so calling each_child recursively from inside the yield block drives doc->where beyond the array. On the next entry the function copies the path into the 800-byte stack-local buffer save_path[MAX_STACK] using wlen = doc->where - doc->where_path, so when the previous recursive call left doc->where past where_path[100] the wlen exceeds MAX_STACK and the memcpy overflows save_path on the C stack; because the Oj::Doc parser imposes no JSON nesting-depth limit (relying on a C-stack pressure check), deeply nested attacker input reaches this path. This issue has been fixed in version 3.17.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ohler55 oj < 3.17.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ruby-oj 3.17.3-1 —
Debian 13 ruby-oj 3.16.3-1+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 ruby-oj 3.14.2-1+deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 ruby-oj No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ruby-oj No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 ruby-oj No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ruby-oj No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ruby-oj No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ruby-oj No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ruby-oj No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ruby-oj No fix yet —
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ruby-oj No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling ruby3.2-fluentd-kubernetes-daemonset-1.19-kinesis 1.19.2.1.1-r5 —
Wolfi rolling ruby3.2-kube-logging-operator-fluentd-outputs +1 6.7.0-r4 —
Wolfi rolling ruby3.3-fluentd-kubernetes-daemonset-1.19-kinesis +2 1.19.3.1.0-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems oj < 3.17.3 3.17.3 GHSA-3m6q-jj5j-38c9

References