CVE-2016-4425

jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 1, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption