CVE-2013-6371

medium

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.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66715

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/57791

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131845.html

https://github.com/json-c/json-c/commit/64e36901a0614bf64a19bc3396469c66dcd0b015

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92541

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032311

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-04-22

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L