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CVE-2013-6370

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-04-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 20
• Json-C: before 0.12-20140410 — fixed in 0.12-20140410

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Json-C 0.12-20140410. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131845.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57791
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:079
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66720
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032322
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92540
• https://github.com/json-c/json-c/commit/64e36901a0614bf64a19bc3396469c66dcd0b015
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131845.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57791
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:079
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

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