Bug 2296958

Summary:	CVE-2024-39684 rapidjson: pivilege escalation via integer overflow in GenericReader::ParseNumber() [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component:	rapidjson	Assignee:	Tom Hughes <tom>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	40	CC:	besser82, tom, trpost
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["24d22f3c-6123-4bab-8546-797d104d03b8"]}
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Last Closed:	2024-07-10 14:28:37 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2296855

Description Robb Gatica 2024-07-10 00:53:10 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2296855

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Tom Hughes 2024-07-10 14:27:53 UTC

For the benefit of people that aren't psychic https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39684 is the issue in question.

Sadly like so many CVEs it contains absolutely no actionable information about the problem and it, and this bug, are therefore completely useless and a waste of my time.