FKIE_CVE-2013-6371

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-04-22 13:06 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:00
Severity
Summary
The hash functionality in json-c before 0.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted JSON data, involving collisions.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131845.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/57791Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:079Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66715Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032311Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92541VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/json-c/json-c/commit/64e36901a0614bf64a19bc3396469c66dcd0b015Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131845.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/57791Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:079Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66715Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032311Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92541VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/json-c/json-c/commit/64e36901a0614bf64a19bc3396469c66dcd0b015Issue Tracking, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
json-c json-c *
fedoraproject fedora 20
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