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Gentoo: GLSA-202403-03 Normal: UltraJSON Key Confusion Threat

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Calendar Grey March 3, 2024
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Uncover various vulnerabilities within UltraJSON that may jeopardize Gentoo users, risking potential data loss. Prioritize safety.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in UltraJSON, the worst of which could lead to key confusion and value overwriting.

Summary

Affected versions were found to improperly decode certain characters. JSON strings that contain escaped surrogate characters not part of a proper surrogate pair were decoded incorrectly. Besides corrupting strings, this allowed for potential key confusion and value overwriting in dictionaries. All users parsing JSON from untrusted sources are vulnerable. From version 5.4.0, UltraJSON decodes lone surrogates in the same way as the standard library's `json` module does, preserving them in the parsed output.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue gentoo data corruption normal severity key confusion UltraJSON

Resolution

All UltraJSON users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/ujson-5.4.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2022-31116 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31116 [ 2 ] CVE-2022-31117 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31117

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202403-03
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: UltraJSON: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: March 03, 2024
Bugs: #855689
ID: 202403-03

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue gentoo data corruption normal severity key confusion UltraJSON

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in UltraJSON, the worst of which could lead to key confusion and value overwriting.

Background

UltraJSON is an ultra fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.8+.

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Affected Packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected ---------------- ------------ ------------ dev-python/ujson < 5.4.0 >= 5.4.0

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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