Bug 2495842

Summary:	CVE-2023-53154 cjson: Heap based buffer overflow at cJSON_ParseWithLength function [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Carl George 🤠 <carlwgeorge>
Component:	cjson	Assignee:	Jonathan Wright <jonathan>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	rawhide	CC:	extras-qa, jonathan, mail, psampaio
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature, Security, SecurityTracking
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["70443d4d-852f-45b8-8b2d-af1257899767"]}
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Clone Of:	2368315	Environment:
Last Closed:	2026-07-01 06:18:38 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	2368279

Description Carl George 🤠 2026-07-01 05:41:14 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2368315 +++

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368279

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.

--- Additional comment from Fedora Release Engineering on 2026-05-06 08:02:13 CDT ---

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--- Additional comment from Aoife Moloney on 2026-06-08 12:15:59 CDT ---

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Comment 1 Carl George 🤠 2026-07-01 06:18:38 UTC

This was fixed in cjson 1.7.18, which all current versions of Fedora already have.