Debian 8: DSA-3577-1 Moderate: Jansson Denial Of Service Issue
debian
May 14, 2016
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/
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Package: jansson
CVE ID: CVE-2016-4425
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