Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cjson  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2004-CJSON-578962
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed20 Aug 2018

Introduced: 20 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-1000215  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

Dave Gamble cJSON version 1.7.6 and earlier contains a CWE-772 vulnerability in cJSON library that can result in Denial of Service (DoS). This attack appear to be exploitable via If the attacker can force the data to be printed and the system is in low memory it can force a leak of memory. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.7.