CVE-2026-54502

Oj: Stack Buffer Overflow in Oj.dump via Large Indent

State
Published
Severity
6.3 Medium
Published
Jun 30, 2026
Updated
Jul 1, 2026
Reserved
Jun 15, 2026

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Description

Oj (Optimized JSON) is a JSON parser and Object marshaller packaged as a Ruby gem. In versions prior to 3.17.2, Oj.dump is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when a large :indent value is provided by the developer. fill_indent in dump.h calls memset(indent_str, ' ', (size_t)opts->indent) without validating the size. When opts->indent is set to INT_MAX (2,147,483,647), the (size_t) cast preserves the large value and memset writes 2 GB into the stack-allocated out buffer (4,184 bytes), corrupting the stack and crashing the process. This issue has been fixed in version 3.17.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.3 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ojohler55
  • < 3.17.2Affected

References

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