Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.058
EPSS Ranking 90.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
References
- 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
Products affected by CVE-2016-4303
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.10
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.11
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.7
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.8
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.0.9
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:es:iperf3:3.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:novell:suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise:12
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0
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cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1
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cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2