HighFix available
cjson — security advisory
cJSON v1.7.16 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function cJSON_InsertItemInArray at cJSON.c.
- Products
- cjson
- Affected versions
- 1.7.15-1
- Fixed versions
- 1.7.15-1+deb12u1, 1.7.17-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-50471
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
cJSON v1.7.16 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function cJSON_InsertItemInArray at cJSON.c.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-50471
cjson
Fixed versions: 1.7.15-1+deb12u1
cjson
Fixed versions: 1.7.17-1
cjson
Fixed versions: 1.7.17-1
Complete source record
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