fkie_cve-2016-10749
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2019-04-29 14:29
Modified
2025-07-22 18:17
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
parse_string in cJSON.c in cJSON before 2016-10-02 has a buffer over-read, as demonstrated by a string that begins with a " character and ends with a \ character.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/commit/94df772485c92866ca417d92137747b2e3b0a917Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/30Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/07/2Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/commit/94df772485c92866ca417d92137747b2e3b0a917Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/30Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/07/2Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
davegamble cjson *


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{
  "configurations": [
    {
      "nodes": [
        {
          "cpeMatch": [
            {
              "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:davegamble:cjson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "matchCriteriaId": "C39E4FFE-1327-47AB-9E3C-2D2E1964DC0D",
              "versionEndExcluding": "0.0.0",
              "vulnerable": true
            }
          ],
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          "operator": "OR"
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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "parse_string in cJSON.c in cJSON before 2016-10-02 has a buffer over-read, as demonstrated by a string that begins with a \" character and ends with a \\ character."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "parse_string en cJSON.c en cJSON antes del 02/10/2016, tiene una sobre-lectura de b\u00fafer, como lo demuestra una cadena que comienza con un car\u00e1cter \" y termina con un car\u00e1cter \\."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2016-10749",
  "lastModified": "2025-07-22T18:17:45.530",
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