Bug 610877 (CVE-2010-1666)

Summary: CVE-2010-1666 python-cjson: Buffer overflow (crash) when encoding wide Unicode characters on UTF-32/UCS-4
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-02 16:30:46 UTC 
Matt Giuca noticed a possibility of buffer overflow, present in Python
JSON encoder/decoder, when encoding wide Unicode characters on UTF-32/UCS-4.
A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted Python script, which once
launched by local, unsuspecting user could lead to denial of service
(application using Python JSON encoder / decoder crash).

References:
  [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-cjson/+bug/585274

Public PoC (from [1]):
  [2] cjson.encode(u'\U0001D11E\U0001D11E\U0001D11E\U0001D11E\u1234\u1234\u1234\u1234\u1234\u1234')

Patch applied by Ubuntu:
  [3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/python-cjson/1.0.5-1ubuntu0.8.04.1/+files/python-cjson_1.0.5-1ubuntu0.8.04.1.diff.gz
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-02 16:38:00 UTC 
Created attachment 429108 [details]
And local copy of Ubuntu patch
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-02 16:39:52 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the python-cjson package,
as shipped with Fedora releases of 12 and 13.

This issue affects the versions of the python-cjson package,
as present within EPEL-5 repository.

Please fix.
Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-07-02 16:40:46 UTC 
Created python-cjson tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 610881]
Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:57:04 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.