Critical
Security advisory
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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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-32292
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 31 Oct 2026, 11:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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