CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4303
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
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 configurations
• es iperf3 (>= 3.0 < 3.0.12)
• es iperf3 (>= 3.1 < 3.1.3)
• novell suse package hub for suse linux enterprise 12
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html Mailing List, 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
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc Third Party Advisory
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html Mailing List, 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
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc Third Party Advisory