[Secure-testing-team] Bug#744008: json-c: CVE-2013-6370 CVE-2013-6371

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: json-c
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerabilities were published for json-c.

CVE-2013-6370[0]:
buffer overflow if size_t is larger than int

CVE-2013-6371[1]:
hash collision DoS

If you fix the vulnerabilities please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) ids in your changelog entry.

The upstream patch is at [2].

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6370
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6370
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6371
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6371
[2] https://github.com/json-c/json-c/commit/64e36901a0614bf64a19bc3396469c66dcd0b015

Regards,
Salvatore