CVE-2016-4425 — Improper Input Validation in Jansson

CWE-20 — Improper Input ValidationCWE-674 — Uncontrolled RecursionCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption8 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Jansson Project JanssonDebian Jansson
Timeline
PublishedMay 17
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Jansson 2.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion, stack consumption, and crash) via crafted JSON data.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/jansson< jansson 2.7-5 (bookworm)
▶Debianjansson_project/jansson< 2.7-5+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-rf62-m3fm-w623: Jansson 2↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-4425: Jansson 2↗2016-05-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file↗2016-05-01
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Debian
CVE-2016-4425: jansson - Jansson 2.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of ...↗2016
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4425 jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file↗2016-05-02
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4425 jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file [fedora-all]↗2016-05-02
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4425 jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file [epel-6]↗2016-05-02
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