CRITICAL9.8
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 2.0HIGH 7.5
CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PCVSS 3.xCRITICAL 9.8
CVSS:3.x/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HReferences
- 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