Fedora 40: yyjson 2024-8c48a81cb9 Security Advisory Updates
Summary
A high performance JSON library written in ANSI C.
Features
- Fast: can read or write gigabytes per second JSON data on modern CPUs.
- Portable: complies with ANSI C (C89) for cross-platform compatibility.
- Strict: complies with RFC 8259 JSON standard, ensuring strict number format
and UTF-8 validation.
- Extendable: offers options to allow comments, trailing commas, NaN/Inf, and
custom memory allocator.
- Accuracy: can accurately read and write int64, uint64, and double numbers.
- Flexible: supports unlimited JSON nesting levels, \u0000 characters, and non
null-terminated strings.
- Manipulation: supports querying and modifying using JSON Pointer, JSON Patch
and JSON Merge Patch.
- Developer-Friendly: easy integration with only one h and one c file.
Update Information:
Update to 0.9.0; fix rhbz#2274045 and rhbz#2266791; Security fix for CVE-2024-25713
Change Log
* Tue Apr 9 2024 topazus
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2266791 - CVE-2024-25713 yyjson: double free leading to remote code execution [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266791 [ 2 ] Bug #2274045 - yyjson-0.9.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2274045
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-8c48a81cb9' 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