Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2016-4303 First vendor Publication 2016-09-26
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2022-06-30

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 9.8
Base Score 9.8 Environmental Score 9.8
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 9.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4303

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 1
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-07-13 iperf3 heap overflow remote code execution attempt
RuleID : 39165 - Revision : 2 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-08-22 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1006.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-45402a6f3b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-9693e82a25.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-d67864115d.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-09 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_d6bbf2d82cfc11e6800b080027468580.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-1...
https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-s...
MISC http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html

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