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.

CVSS v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 7.5 HIGH

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CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.5^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

V2 Legend

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

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
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

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:iperf3_project:iperf3::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:iperf3_project:iperf3::::::::

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise:12:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:::::::*

Configuration 3 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2016-09-26 07:59

Updated : 2022-06-30 08:13

NVD link : CVE-2016-4303

Mitre link : CVE-2016-4303

JSON object : View

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

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