CVE-2021-45958 (GCVE-0-2021-45958)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-31 23:52 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:54
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
UltraJSON (aka ujson) through 5.1.0 has a stack-based buffer overflow in Buffer_AppendIndentUnchecked (called from encode). Exploitation can, for example, use a large amount of indentation.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/mai… | x_refsource_MISC |
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| https://github.com/ultrajson/ultrajson/issues/502… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/ultrajson/ultrajson/issues/501 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/ultrajson/ultrajson/pull/504 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
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| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
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