| Name | CVE-2023-1436 |
| Description | An infinite recursion is triggered in Jettison when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. This leads to a StackOverflowError exception being thrown. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1033846 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libjettison-java (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 1.5.3-1~deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.5.3-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 1.5.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - libjettison-java <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - libjettison-java <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - libjettison-java <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS)
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/jettison-json-array-dos-xray-427911/
https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/issues/60
https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/pull/62
https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/commit/c20a8be23f698d7d89b7ccf8d328971cf4709b9f (jettison-1.5.4)
Introduced by: https://github.com/jettison-json/jettison/commit/be193159085b9fc2bc3526f8655871f9b0472d06 (jettison-1.3.1)