CVE-2016-4425
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- May 17, 2016
- Updated
- Dec 4, 2025
- Reserved
- May 2, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- [oss-security] 20160503 Re: CVE Request: Jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON filemailing-list
- [oss-security] 20160501 CVE Request: Jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON filemailing-list
- [oss-security] 20160502 Re: CVE Request: Jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON filemailing-list
- https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues/282
- https://github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/284
- https://github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/284/commits/64ce0ad3731ebd77e02897b07920eadd0e2cc318
- DSA-3577vendor-advisory
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