debian · CVE-2016-4303

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:59:38 GMT

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CVE-2016-4303 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (iperf3), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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