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CVE-2020-12762 (GCVE-0-2020-12762)
Vulnerability from nvd
Published
2020-05-09 00:00
Modified
2025-11-03 19:25
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
json-c through 0.14 has an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write via a large JSON file, as demonstrated by printbuf_memappend.
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CVE-2020-12762 (GCVE-0-2020-12762)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-05-09 00:00
Modified
2025-11-03 19:25
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
json-c through 0.14 has an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write via a large JSON file, as demonstrated by printbuf_memappend.
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