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CVE-2016-4303

CRITICAL

9.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published9/26/2016

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxes:iperf3novell:suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterpriseopensuse:leapopensuse:opensuse

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-120

References

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html(cret@cert.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html(cret@cert.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html(cret@cert.org)

http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released(cret@cert.org)

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/(cret@cert.org)

https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a(cret@cert.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html(cret@cert.org)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc(cret@cert.org)

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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