fkie_cve-2016-4303
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-09-26 14:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
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.
References
Impacted products
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