Advisories » MGASA-2020-0240

Updated json-c packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 May 2020
Modification date: 28 May 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-12762

Description

Updated json-c package fixes security vulnerabilities:

It was discovered that json-c through 0.14 has an integer overflow
and out-of-bounds write via a large JSON file, as demonstrated by
printbuf_memappend (CVE-2020-12762).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26623
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4360-1/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12762

SRPMS

7/core

• json-c-0.13.1-2.2.mga7