USN-4360-1 fixed a vulnerability in json-c. The security fix introduced a memory leak that was reverted in USN-4360-2 and USN-4360-3. This update provides the correct fix update for CVE-2020-12762. Original advisory details: It was discovered that json-c incorrectly handled certain JSON files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

json-c could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write. By persuading a victim to run a specially crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

Florian Weimer reported that the hash function in the json-c library was weak, and that parsing smallish JSON strings showed quadratic timing behaviour. This could cause an application linked to the json-c library, and that processes some specially-crafted JSON data, to use excessive amounts of CPU.

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.