cJSON v1.7.17 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation, which can trigger through the second parameter of function cJSON_SetValuestring at cJSON.c.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - cJSON v1.7.17 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation, which can trigger through the second     parameter of function cJSON_SetValuestring at cJSON.c. (CVE-2024-31755)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9838 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations     to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide     public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It     performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard     operating environments.

    Security Fix(es):

    * cjson: segmentation violation in function cJSON_InsertItemInArray (CVE-2023-50471)

    * cjson: segmentation violation in function cJSON_SetValuestring (CVE-2023-50472)

    * cjson: segmentation violation trigger through the second parameter of function cJSON_SetValuestring at     cJSON.c (CVE-2024-31755)

    * rubygem-rack: Unbounded-Parameter DoS in Rack::QueryParser (CVE-2025-46727)

    * python-sqlparse: sqlparse: parsing heavily nested list leads to denial of service (CVE-2024-4340)

    Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, which fix these bugs.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9203 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations     to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide     public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It     performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard     operating environments.

    Security Fix(es):

    * cjson: segmentation violation trigger through the second parameter of     function     cJSON_SetValuestring at cJSON.c (CVE-2024-31755)

    Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, which fix these bugs.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9022 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations     to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide     public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It     performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard     operating environments.

    Security Fix(es):

    * cjson: segmentation violation trigger through the second parameter of function cJSON_SetValuestring at     cJSON.c (CVE-2024-31755)

    Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, which fix these bugs.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-82f3634c69 advisory.

    Update to new upstream version (closes rhbz#2237124)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-5db248f2a0 advisory.

    Update to new upstream version (closes rhbz#2237124)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of apparmor installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-31755 advisory.

  - cJSON v1.7.17 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation, which can trigger through the second     parameter of function cJSON_SetValuestring at cJSON.c. (CVE-2024-31755)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2024:0139-1 advisory.

    - Update to 1.7.18:
      * CVE-2024-31755: NULL pointer dereference via cJSON_SetValuestring() (boo#1223420)
      * Remove non-functional list handling of compiler flags
      * Fix heap buffer overflow
      * remove misused optimization flag -01
      * Set free'd pointers to NULL whenever they are not reassigned         immediately after

    - Update to version 1.7.17 (boo#1218098, CVE-2023-50472,         boo#1218099, CVE-2023-50471):
      * Fix null reference in cJSON_SetValuestring (CVE-2023-50472).
      * Fix null reference in cJSON_InsertItemInArray (CVE-2023-50471).

    - Update to 1.7.16:
      * Add an option for ENABLE_CJSON_VERSION_SO in CMakeLists.txt
      * Add cmake_policy to CMakeLists.txt
      * Add cJSON_SetBoolValue
      * Add meson documentation
      * Fix memory leak in merge_patch
      * Fix conflicting target names 'uninstall'
      * Bump cmake version to 3.0 and use new version syntax
      * Print int without decimal places
      * Fix 'cjson_utils-static' target not exist
      * Add allocate check for replace_item_in_object
      * Fix a null pointer crash in cJSON_ReplaceItemViaPointer

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.10 / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6784-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that cJSON incorrectly handled certain input. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause cJSON to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and     Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-50471, CVE-2023-50472)

    Luo Jin discovered that cJSON incorrectly handled certain input. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause cJSON to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-31755)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256687	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-31755	Nessus	Misc.	high
240696	RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.15.5.3 Async Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:9838)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
240137	RHEL 8 / 9 : Satellite 6.16.5.2 Async Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:9203)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
238340	RHEL 9 : Satellite 6.17.1 Async Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:9022)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
211414	Fedora 41 : cjson (2024-82f3634c69)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
207901	Fedora 40 : cjson (2024-5db248f2a0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
202349	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: apparmor (CVE-2024-31755)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	high
197933	openSUSE 15 Security Update : cJSON (openSUSE-SU-2024:0139-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
197836	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.10 / 24.04 LTS : cJSON vulnerabilities (USN-6784-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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