Security Advisory
CVE-2016-4303
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
September 26, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory