CVE-2013-6370
Buffer overflow in the printbuf APIs in json-c before 0.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.
02 Description
Buffer overflow in the printbuf APIs in json-c before 0.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.31% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 90.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2014-04-21 14:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 17:39Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2013-11-04
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 83b5b62d34146496846b172caff9ed6831e89e397bcca8d92be406bf817c3b4c
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2014:079http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:079
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032322
- secunia.com57791http://secunia.com/advisories/57791
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comjsonc-cve20136370-bo(92540)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92540
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2014-5006http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131845.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/json-c/json-c/commit/64e36901a0614bf64a19bc3396469c66dcd0b015
- www.securityfocus.com66720http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66720
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- json-c Fixed in 0.11-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- json-c Fixed in 0.11-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- json-c Fixed in 0.11-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- json-c Fixed in 0.11-3ubuntu1.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.