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Debian DSA-3577-1 : jansson - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 91139

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Gustavo Grieco discovered that jansson, a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data, did not limit the recursion depth when parsing JSON arrays and objects. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via stack exhaustion, using crafted JSON data.

Solution

Upgrade the jansson packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-1+deb8u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823238

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/jansson

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3577

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91139

File Name: debian_DSA-3577.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:jansson

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4425

DSA: 3577