ALAS-2020-1381

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-12762  

json-c through 0.14 has an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write via a large JSON file, as demonstrated by printbuf_memappend. (CVE-2020-12762)

ALAS-2020-1381


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1381
Advisory Release Date: 2020-06-23 05:59 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-06-26 04:47 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2020-12762 

Issue Overview:

json-c through 0.14 has an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write via a large JSON file, as demonstrated by printbuf_memappend. (CVE-2020-12762)


Affected Packages:

json-c


Issue Correction:
Run yum update json-c to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    json-c-debuginfo-0.11-7.8.amzn1.i686
    json-c-0.11-7.8.amzn1.i686
    json-c-devel-0.11-7.8.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    json-c-doc-0.11-7.8.amzn1.noarch

src:
    json-c-0.11-7.8.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    json-c-debuginfo-0.11-7.8.amzn1.x86_64
    json-c-0.11-7.8.amzn1.x86_64
    json-c-devel-0.11-7.8.amzn1.x86_64