CVE-2026-68498 is a constraint-enforcement vulnerability in Jackson Core's ReaderBasedJsonParser. The parser does not enforce the configured maxNameLength incrementally while processing JSON property names. The correction adds incremental enforcement of that limit. The issue affects Jackson Core packages distributed for openSUSE 16 and FreeBSD; exact affected version ranges are not established.
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A Jackson core parser constraint issue addressed by enforcing maxNameLength incrementally in ReaderBasedJsonParser. The supplied description does not detail the impact. The advisory provides jackson-core 2.18.11.
A vulnerability identified as CVE-2026-68498 affecting FreeBSD package jackson-core, with integrity and availability impact indicated by the CVSS vectors.
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