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CVE-2023-50472

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 14, 2023 | Modified: Jul 22, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50472
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

cJSON v1.7.16 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function cJSON_SetValuestring at cJSON.c.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
CjsonDavegamble1.7.16 (including)1.7.16 (including)
Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8RedHatcjson-0:1.7.18-1.el8sat*
Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8RedHatcjson-0:1.7.18-1.el8sat*
CjsonUbuntubionic*
CjsonUbuntuesm-apps/jammy*
CjsonUbuntujammy*
CjsonUbuntulunar*
CjsonUbuntumantic*
CjsonUbuntutrusty*
CjsonUbuntuupstream*
CjsonUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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