critical9.8
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 exe…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Es | Iperf3 | from 3.0 before 3.0.12 from 3.1 before 3.1.3 |
| Novell | Suse Package Hub For Suse Linux Enterprise | Version 12 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Version 42.1 |
| Opensuse | Opensuse | Version 13.2 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 8.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html
- http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/
- https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html
- http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/
- https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc