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
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https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a | Patch Third Party Advisory |
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released | Release Notes Third Party Advisory |
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc | Third Party Advisory |
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
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Information
Published : 2016-09-26 07:59
Updated : 2022-06-30 08:13
NVD link : CVE-2016-4303
Mitre link : CVE-2016-4303
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CWE
CWE-120
Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Products Affected
iperf3_project
- iperf3
opensuse
- leap
- opensuse
debian
- debian_linux
novell
- suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise