CVE-2016-4303

Publication date

2016-09-26 14:00:00

Family

certcc

State

PUBLISHED

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.