CVE-2016-4303
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4303
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4303.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4303
- Related
- Published
- 2016-09-26T14:59:01Z
- Modified
- 2025-04-12T13:23:31.736950Z
- Downstream
- Severity
-
- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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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- 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
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/
- https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a
- http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4303
Affected packages
Debian:11 / iperf3
Package
- Name
- iperf3
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/iperf3?arch=source
Debian:12 / iperf3
Package
- Name
- iperf3
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/iperf3?arch=source
Debian:13 / iperf3
Package
- Name
- iperf3
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/iperf3?arch=source