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cjson — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000215

Dave Gamble cJSON version 1.7.6 and earlier contains a CWE-772 vulnerability in cJSON library that can result in Denial of Service (DoS). This attack appear to be exploitable via If the attacker can force the data to be printed and the system is in low memory it can force a leak of memory. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.7.

Products
cjson
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1.7.7-1
CVEs
CVE-2018-1000215
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 01:27 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000215

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Aug 2018, 20:29 UTC

Dave Gamble cJSON version 1.7.6 and earlier contains a CWE-772 vulnerability in cJSON library that can result in Denial of Service (DoS). This attack appear to be exploitable via If the attacker can force the data to be printed and the system is in low memory it can force a leak of memory. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.7.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000215

cjson

Fixed versions: 1.7.7-1

cjson

Fixed versions: 1.7.7-1

cjson

Fixed versions: 1.7.7-1

Complete source record
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