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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-32292

An issue was discovered in json-c from 20200420 (post 0.14 unreleased code) through 0.15-20200726. A stack-buffer-overflow exists in the auxiliary sample program json_parse which is located in the function parseit.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:46 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-32292

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Aug 2023, 19:16 UTC

An issue was discovered in json-c from 20200420 (post 0.14 unreleased code) through 0.15-20200726. A stack-buffer-overflow exists in the auxiliary sample program json_parse which is located in the function parseit.

osv:CVE-2021-32292
Complete source record
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