Bug#1033846: libjettison-java: CVE-2023-1436

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libjettison-java
Version: 1.5.3-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/issues/60
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>
Control: found -1 1.5.3-1~deb11u1

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libjettison-java.

CVE-2023-1436[0]:
| An infinite recursion is triggered in Jettison when constructing a
| JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of
| its elements. This leads to a StackOverflowError exception being
| thrown.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-1436
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1436
[1] https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/issues/60

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore