ruby-oj: Oj (Optimized JSON) is a JSON parser and Object marshaller packaged as a Ruby gem
CVE-2026-54500 is fixed in ruby-oj on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54500, released July 3, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.
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 >= 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.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | |||
| ruby-oj · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) | 3.14.2-1+deb12u1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54500 | Jul 3, 2026 |
| ruby-oj · Debian 13.5 (trixie) | 3.16.3-1+deb13u1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54500 | Jul 3, 2026 |
| ruby-oj · Debian 14 | 3.17.3-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-54500 | Jul 3, 2026 |
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