CVE-2016-4303
Published
CVSS v3
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS v2
7.5
HIGH
Affected
1
PROJECT
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.