CVE-2016-4303
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 26, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 27, 2016
Description
The parse_string function in cjson.c in the cJSON library mishandles UTF8/16 strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a non-hex character in a JSON string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html
- http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc
- https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2113vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2121vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200127 [SECURITY] [DLA 2080-1] iperf3 security updatemailing-list
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