CVE-2026-54896: Oj: Heap Buffer Overflow in Oj.dump Exception Serialization via Large Indent
Oj.dump in object mode is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when serializing Exception objects with a large :indent value. The serializer allocates a buffer sized for the object’s attributes but does not account for the indent bytes added on each write. With indent: 5000, the accumulation of 5,000-byte indent strings overflows the 13,150-byte heap allocation, corrupting adjacent heap memory.
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