Double Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cjson  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-CJSON-599755
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed20 Aug 2018

Introduced: 20 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-1000216  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cjson package and not the cjson package as distributed by Debian.

Dave Gamble cJSON version 1.7.2 and earlier contains a CWE-415: Double Free vulnerability in cJSON library that can result in Possible crash or RCE. This attack appear to be exploitable via Attacker must be able to force victim to print JSON data, depending on how cJSON library is used this could be either local or over a network. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.3.