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Debian 8: DSA-3577-1 Moderate: Jansson Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey May 14, 2016
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A crucial Jansson library update for Debian has been released to fix vulnerabilities linked to unbounded recursion depth, enhancing application stability and security
Gustavo Grieco discovered that jansson, a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data, did not limit the recursion depth when parsing JSON arrays and objects
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Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7-1+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.7-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your jansson packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



Package: jansson
CVE ID: CVE-2016-4425

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