Name: CVE-2016-4303: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2016-09-26T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-4303, CWE-120, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.06963

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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade iperf3	Jan 29, 2020	Sep 26, 2016
Freebsd	—	Upgrade iperf3	Dec 10, 2025	Jun 8, 2016
Suse	—	Upgrade iperfUpgrade libiperf0Upgrade iperf-devel	Aug 26, 2016	Aug 19, 2016
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade iperf3 (Ubuntu Pro)	Mar 22, 2023	Sep 26, 2016

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CVSS Details

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