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CVE-2016-4303

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.

Published

2016-09-26T14:59:01.553

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 9.8 (CRITICAL)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-120

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	es	iperf3	< 3.0.12	Yes
Application	es	iperf3	< 3.1.3	Yes
Application	novell	suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise	12	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	leap	42.1	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	13.2	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	8.0	Yes

References

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released Release Notes, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released Release Notes, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)