Cryptographic Issues Affecting json-c package, versions <0.11-4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.66% (80th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-JSONC-299972
- published 22 Apr 2014
- disclosed 22 Apr 2014
Introduced: 22 Apr 2014
CVE-2013-6371 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
json-c
to version 0.11-4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream json-c
package and not the json-c
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
The hash functionality in json-c before 0.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted JSON data, involving collisions.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6371
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131845.html
- https://github.com/json-c/json-c/commit/64e36901a0614bf64a19bc3396469c66dcd0b015
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032311
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57791
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66715
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-6371
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92541
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:079