CVE-2026-54502 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 15.06.2026 Published: 30.06.2026 Updated: 30.06.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.3

Product Status

Vendor ohler55
Product oj
Versions
  • Version < 3.17.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE