CVE-2024-4420 – Denial of Service in Tink-cc

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2024-4420

21 May 2024 — There exists a Denial of service vulnerability in Tink-cc in versions prior to 2.1.3. * An adversary can crash binaries using the crypto::tink::JsonKeysetReader in tink-cc by providing an input that is not an encoded JSON object, but still a valid encoded JSON element, for example a number or an array. This will crash as Tink just assumes any valid JSON input will contain an object. * An adversary can crash binaries using the crypto::tink::JsonKeysetReader in tink-cc by providing an input containing many ne... • https://github.com/tink-crypto/tink-cc/issues/4 • CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output •