{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54500","details":"Oj (Optimized JSON) is a JSON parser and Object marshaller packaged as a Ruby gem. In versions prior to 3.17.3, Oj.load in :object mode reads uninitialized stack memory (and, for long keys, reads out of bounds) when parsing a JSON object whose key is 254 bytes or longer. The interned bytes can surface to the caller, disclosing process stack memory. In ext/oj/intern.c, form_attr() handles the long-key path by allocating a heap buffer, `b`, populating it with the attribute name, and then freeing it — but it passed the uninitialized stack buffer buf (not b) to rb_intern3(). rb_intern3 therefore reads len + 1 bytes of uninitialized stack memory. When the key length is \u003e= 256, it also reads out of bounds past the 256-byte buf. The resulting bytes are interned and can reach the caller via the produced Symbol or via the EncodingError message raised on invalid UTF-8, leaking process stack contents. This issue has been fixed in version 3.17.3.","modified":"2026-09-14T17:03:43.872741278Z","published":"2026-07-01T00:16:32.147Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-54500"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-54500"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"ruby-oj","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/ruby-oj?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["3.14.2-1","3.15.0-1","3.16.0-1","3.16.1-1","3.16.12-1","3.16.15-1","3.16.16-1","3.16.3-1","3.17.0-1","3.17.1-1","3.17.3-1","3.17.4-1","3.17.6-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54500.json"}},{"package":{"name":"ruby-oj","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/ruby-oj?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["3.16.12-1","3.16.15-1","3.16.16-1","3.16.3-1","3.17.0-1","3.17.1-1","3.17.3-1","3.17.4-1","3.17.6-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54500.json"}},{"package":{"name":"ruby-oj","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/ruby-oj?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.17.3-1"}]}],"versions":["3.16.12-1","3.16.15-1","3.16.16-1","3.16.3-1","3.17.0-1","3.17.1-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54500.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"}]}