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Fedora 40: Fixing Segmentation Fault in cjson with Update 2024-b93a6b1325

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade cjson to version 1.7.17 to fix segmentation faults and various other bugs in Fedora.
Update to latest upstream version 1.7.17 (closes rhbz#2255953)

Summary

cJSON aims to be the dumbest possible parser that you can get your job

done with. It's a single file of C, and a single header file.

Update Information:

Update to latest upstream version 1.7.17 (closes rhbz#2255953)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora bug fix segmentation fault cjson

Change Log

* Sun Apr 7 2024 Fabian Affolter - 1.7.17.-1 - Update to latest upstream version 1.7.17 (closes rhbz#2255953) - Fix rhbz#2254647

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2254647 - TRIAGE CVE-2023-50471 cjson: segmentation violation in function cJSON_InsertItemInArray [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254647 [ 2 ] Bug #2255953 - cjson-1.7.17 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255953

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-b93a6b1325' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: cjson
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.7.17
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON
Summary: Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora bug fix segmentation fault cjson

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