CVE-2010-1666

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-07-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in Dan Pascu python-cjson 1.0.5, when UCS-4 encoding is enabled, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving crafted Unicode input to the cjson.encode function.

Affected products

Dan Pascu Python-Cjson: 1.0.5

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/40335
http://secunia.com/advisories/40500
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2068
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1774
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-cjson/+bug/585274
http://secunia.com/advisories/40335
http://secunia.com/advisories/40500
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2068
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1774
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-cjson/+bug/585274

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