CVE-2013-6371
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
The hash functionality in json-c before 0.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted JSON data, involving collisions.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0.11-4 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0.11-4 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0.11-4 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0.11-4 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0.11-4 |
| fedora | 20 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| json-c | json-c | {"endExcluding":"0.12-20140410"} | 0.12-20140410 |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131845.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57791
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:079
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66715
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032311
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92541
- https://github.com/json-c/json-c/commit/64e36901a0614bf64a19bc3396469c66dcd0b015
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6371
CWEs
CWE-310
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.