CVE-2016-4303 (GCVE-0-2016-4303)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-26 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:25
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-06-06 00:00
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