Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published May 17, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-4425

Description

Jansson 2.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion, stack consumption, and crash) via crafted JSON data.

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Affected products

Jansson Project/Jansson
cpe:2.3:a:jansson_project:jansson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=2.7

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/akheron/jansson/issues/282nvdPatch
github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/284nvdPatch
www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3577nvd
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/01/5nvd
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/02/1nvd
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/3nvd
github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/284/commits/64ce0ad3731ebd77e02897b07920eadd0e2cc318nvd

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