PT-2016-5953 · Jansson+1 · Jansson+1

Gustavo Grieco · Published 2016-05-14 · Updated 2018-11-27 · CVE-2016-4425

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Jansson versions 2.7 and earlier

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service through crafted JSON data, leading to deep recursion, stack consumption, and a crash.

Recommendations For Jansson versions 2.7 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

RCE

Uncontrolled Recursion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

CWE-674

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2705

CVE-2016-4425

DLA-471-1

DSA-3577-1

MGASA-2016-0198

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Jansson

References · 19

• https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues/282 · Patch
• https://github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/284 · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4425 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4425 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4425 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3577 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0198.html · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3577 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4425 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3577-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4425 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4425 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4425 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/284/commits/64ce0ad3731ebd77e02897b07920eadd0e2cc318 · Note