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CVE-2016-4303

Published: Sep 26, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/

x_refsource_MISC

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html

x_refsource_MISC

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

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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

x_refsource_CONFIRM

openSUSE-SU-2016:2113

vendor-advisory

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openSUSE-SU-2016:2121

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

[debian-lts-announce] 20200127 [SECURITY] [DLA 2080-1] iperf3 security update

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