An issue was discovered in json-c from 20200420 (post 0.14 unreleased code) through 0.15-20200726. A stack-buffer-overflow exists in the auxiliary sample program json_parse which is located in the function parseit.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202408-08 (json-c: Buffer Overflow)

    Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the json package has been released.

According to the versions of the json-c package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An issue was discovered in json-c from 20200420 (post 0.14 unreleased code) through 0.15-20200726. A     stack-buffer-overflow exists in the auxiliary sample program json_parse which is located in the function     parseit. (CVE-2021-32292)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the json-c package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An issue was discovered in json-c from 20200420 (post 0.14 unreleased code) through 0.15-20200726. A     stack-buffer-overflow exists in the auxiliary sample program json_parse which is located in the function     parseit. (CVE-2021-32292)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5486 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in json-c through 0.15-20200726. A stack-buffer-overflow exists in the function     parseit located in json_parse.c. It allows an attacker to cause code Execution. (CVE-2021-32292)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6310-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in json-c through 0.15-20200726. A stack-buffer-overflow exists in the function     parseit located in json_parse.c. It allows an attacker to cause code Execution. (CVE-2021-32292)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
205138	GLSA-202408-08 : json-c: Buffer Overflow	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
203653	Photon OS 4.0: Json PHSA-2023-4.0-0462	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
188529	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : json-c (EulerOS-SA-2023-3500)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188506	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : json-c (EulerOS-SA-2023-3358)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188482	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : json-c (EulerOS-SA-2023-3472)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188391	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : json-c (EulerOS-SA-2023-3181)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188351	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : json-c (EulerOS-SA-2023-3216)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188337	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : json-c (EulerOS-SA-2023-3032)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188217	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : json-c (EulerOS-SA-2023-3009)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
188150	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : json-c (EulerOS-SA-2023-3377)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
180523	Debian DSA-5486-1 : json-c - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
180222	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : json-c vulnerability (USN-6310-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

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