CVE-2024-25713

Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-02-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

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.)

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 38, 39, 40
Ibireme Yyjson: through 0.8.0

References

https://github.com/ibireme/yyjson/security/advisories/GHSA-q4m7-9pcm-fpxh
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6KQ67T4R7QEWURW5NMCCVLTBASL4ECHE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NNICQVIF7BRYFWYRL3HPVAJIPXN4OVTX/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TKQPEREDUDKGYJMFNFDQVYCVLWDRO2Y2/
https://github.com/ibireme/yyjson/security/advisories/GHSA-q4m7-9pcm-fpxh
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6KQ67T4R7QEWURW5NMCCVLTBASL4ECHE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NNICQVIF7BRYFWYRL3HPVAJIPXN4OVTX/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TKQPEREDUDKGYJMFNFDQVYCVLWDRO2Y2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6KQ67T4R7QEWURW5NMCCVLTBASL4ECHE/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NNICQVIF7BRYFWYRL3HPVAJIPXN4OVTX/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TKQPEREDUDKGYJMFNFDQVYCVLWDRO2Y2/

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