Out-of-bounds Read Affecting jansson package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-JANSSON-1548880
  • published27 Apr 2021
  • disclosed26 Apr 2021

Introduced: 26 Apr 2021

CVE-2020-36325  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:12 jansson.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jansson package and not the jansson package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Jansson through 2.13.1. Due to a parsing error in json_loads, there's an out-of-bounds read-access bug. NOTE: the vendor reports that this only occurs when a programmer fails to follow the API specification

CVSS Scores

version 3.1