RHSA-2024:1154 — Security Advisory

An update for libfastjson is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libfastjson library provides essential JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) handling functions. The library enables users to construct JSON objects in C, output them as JSON-formatted strings, and convert JSON-formatted strings back to the C representation of JSON objects.

Security Fix(es):

• json-c, libfastjson: integer overflow and out-of-bounds write via a large JSON file (CVE-2020-12762)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.