Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1775-1 php-json-ext -- denial of service

Date Reported:

20 Apr 2009

Affected Packages:

php-json-ext

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-1271.

More information:

It was discovered that php-json-ext, a JSON serialiser for PHP, is prone to a denial of service attack, when receiving a malformed string via the json_decode function.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-3.2+etch1.

The stable distribution (lenny) does not contain a separate php-json-ext package, but includes it in the php5 packages, which will be fixed soon.

The testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid) do not contain a separate php-json-ext package, but include it in the php5 packages.

We recommend that you upgrade your php-json-ext packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php-json-ext_1.2.1-3.2+etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php-json-ext_1.2.1-3.2+etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php-json-ext_1.2.1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php4-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-json-ext/php5-json_1.2.1-3.2+etch1_sparc.deb

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