CVE-2013-6401 (GCVE-0-2013-6401)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-20 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 17:39
VLAI
Summary
Jansson, possibly 2.4 and earlier, does not restrict the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted JSON document.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2014-01-14 00:00
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