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CVE-2016-4303
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-09-26T14:59:01.553 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:47:19.017

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.

Affected products

es — iperf3

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References

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