Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2068-1 python-cjson -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

11 Jul 2010

Affected Packages:

python-cjson

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 587700.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-1666.

More information:

Matt Giuca discovered a buffer overflow in python-cjson, a fast JSON encoder/decoder for Python. This allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) through a specially-crafted Python script.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.5-1+lenny1.

For the testing (squeeze) and the unstable (sid) distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.5-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-cjson package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1.dsc
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_arm.deb
ARM EABI:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_armel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_armel.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson_1.0.5-1+lenny1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/python-cjson/python-cjson-dbg_1.0.5-1+lenny1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.