USN-2245-1

Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled buffer lengths. An attacker could use this issue with a specially-crafted large JSON document to cause json-c to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6370)

Florian Weimer discovered that json-c incorrectly handled hash arrays. An attacker could use this issue with a specially-crafted JSON document to cause json-c to consume CPU resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6371)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / json-c

Package

Name: json-c
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/json-c@0.11-3ubuntu1.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.11-3ubuntu1.2

Affected versions

0.*

0.11-2ubuntu1

0.11-3ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libjson-c-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.11-3ubuntu1.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libjson-c2",
            "binary_version": "0.11-3ubuntu1.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libjson0",
            "binary_version": "0.11-3ubuntu1.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libjson0-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.11-3ubuntu1.2"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2013-6370"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2013-6371"
        }
    ]
}