Bug 2254641 (CVE-2023-50471)

Summary:	CVE-2023-50471 cjson: segmentation violation in function cJSON_InsertItemInArray
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	bbuckingham, bcourt, ehelms, jsherril, lzap, mhulan, nmoumoul, orabin, pcreech, rchan
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Bug Depends On:	2254646, 2254647, 2254648
Bug Blocks:	2254638

Description Robb Gatica 2023-12-15 00:28:29 UTC

cJSON v1.7.16 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function cJSON_InsertItemInArray at cJSON.c.

https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/802

Comment 2 Robb Gatica 2023-12-15 00:48:15 UTC

Created cjson tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2254646]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2254647]

Comment 4 Eric Helms 2024-01-26 16:34:51 UTC

According to https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/releases/tag/v1.7.17 this has been fixed upstream.