CVE-2016-4425 (GCVE-0-2016-4425)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-05-17 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:32
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Jansson 2.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion, stack consumption, and crash) via crafted JSON data.
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