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CVE-2016-4303

Published: 26/09/2016 Updated: 30/06/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

The parse_string function in cjson.c in the cJSON library mishandles UTF8/16 strings, which allows remote malicious users 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.

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novell suse package hub for suse linux enterprise 12

opensuse leap 42.1

opensuse opensuse 13.2

debian debian linux 8.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: iperf3: CVE-2016-4303: JSON parsing vulnerability
Debian Bug report logs - #827116 iperf3: CVE-2016-4303: JSON parsing vulnerability Package: src:iperf3; Maintainer for src:iperf3 is Roberto Lumbreras <rover@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 12:57:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed-upstream, security, upstream ...

References

CWE-120https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412ahttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.htmlhttp://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-releasedhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.aschttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.htmlhttp://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.htmlhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827116https://nvd.nist.gov
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