CVE-2016-4303

critical

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.

References

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html

https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a

http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-09-26

Updated: 2022-06-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical