Bug#1095839: json-smart: CVE-2024-57699

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: json-smart
Version: 2.5.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/netplex/json-smart-v2/pull/233
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for json-smart.

CVE-2024-57699[0]:
| A security issue was found in Netplex Json-smart 2.5.0 through
| 2.5.1. When loading a specially crafted JSON input, containing a
| large number of ’{’, a stack exhaustion can be trigger, which could
| allow an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). This issue
| exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-1370.


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-2024-57699
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57699
[1] https://github.com/netplex/json-smart-v2/pull/233
[2] https://github.com/netplex/json-smart-v2/commit/c21d8545e58b2ef2aa16094a09b13ff92adef15c

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore