[Secure-testing-team] Bug#823238: jansson: CVE-2016-4425: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: jansson
Version: 2.7-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues/282

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for jansson.

CVE-2016-4425[0]:
stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file

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

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4425
[1] https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues/282

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore