Vulnerability CVE-2016-4303
Published: 2016-09-26

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.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Suse package hub for suse linux enterprise 
Novell -> LEAP 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Iperf project -> Iperf 

 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://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc
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