VDB
CVE-2016-4303
CVE-2016-4303
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 7.58% · 92.0th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
7.58%
92.0th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | iperf3 | 3.0.11-1, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html (nist-nvd)
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/ (nist-nvd)
- http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released (circl)
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc (circl)
- https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a (circl)
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2113 (circl)
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2121 (circl)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200127 [SECURITY] [DLA 2080-1] iperf3 security update (circl)
Timeline
- Jun 8, 2015 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 16, 2023 EPSS Score
- Sep 7, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4303 third-party-advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4303 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4788-1 vendor-advisory