CVE-2013-6370

Summary

CVECVE-2013-6370
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-04-22 13:06:26 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in the printbuf APIs in json-c before 0.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 20 All All All
Application Json-c Json-c All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Patch to address the following issues: · 64e3690 · json-c/json-c · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit, Patch
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: json-c-0.11-6.fc20 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List
Malformed Request af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin - October 2015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA57791 - JSON-C Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2014:079 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Broken Link
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com VDB Entry
1032322 – (CVE-2013-6370) CVE-2013-6370 json-c: buffer overflow if size_t is larger than int af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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