UltraJSON vulnerabilities
Summary
Cameron Criswell discovered that UltraJSON contained a memory leak that would occur when parsing large integers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause UltraJSON to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.10, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-32874) It was discovered that UltraJSON contained integer overflow/underflow issues when calculating how much memory to reserve for indentation in certain instances. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause UltraJSON to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-32875) Affected Ubuntu releases: 26.04, 25.10, 24.04, 22.04. CVEs: CVE-2026-32875, CVE-2026-32874.
- Ubuntu 26.04
- Ubuntu 25.10
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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