Bug#1059316: epics-base: CVE-2023-33460

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: epics-base
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for yajl, which is
embedded by epics-base:

CVE-2023-33460[0]:
| There's a memory leak in yajl 2.1.0 with use of yajl_tree_parse
| function. which will cause out-of-memory in server and cause crash.

https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/issues/250


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-33460
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-33460

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.