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.