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Message-ID: <52FA239E.2090407@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:20:30 +1100
From: Murray McAllister <mmcallis@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2013-6401 Jansson hash collision issue
As reported to the distros mailing list:
Hi all,
Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team found that the
hashing implementation in Jansson, a library for encoding, decoding and
manipulating JSON data, was susceptible to predictable hash collisions.
A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using
Jansson to use an excessive amount of CPU time by sending a crafted JSON
document containing a large number of parameters whose names map to the
same hash value. (CVE-2013-6401)
With regards to affected versions, I am guessing only 2.4-2 and 2.4-3
were checked (by Red Hat).
Many thanks to Florian Weimer and Petri Lehtinen (upstream) for their
extensive work on the patch:
https://github.com/akheron/jansson/commit/8f80c2d83808150724d31793e6ade92749b1faa4
(Feel free to copy the above CVE-2013-6401 description paragraph in any
of your bugs or advisories.)
Red Hat bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035538 (to be
opened shortly)
Cheers,
--
Murray McAllister / Red Hat Security Response Team
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