CVE-2020-9861 (GCVE-0-2020-9861)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-11-02 22:14
Modified
2024-08-04 10:43
Severity ?
CWE
  • Parsing malicious JSON input containing deeply nested "array" or "object" structures may lead to a Denial of Service
Summary
A stack overflow issue existed in Swift for Linux. The issue was addressed with improved input validation for dealing with deeply nested malicious JSON input.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Swift Swift 5.1.5 for Linux Version: unspecified   < Swift 5.1.5 for Linux
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