CVE-2016-4303

Name	CVE-2016-4303
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-2080-1
Debian Bugs	827116

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
iperf3 (PTS)	bookworm	3.12-1+deb12u2	fixed
	bookworm (security)	3.12-1+deb12u1	fixed
	trixie	3.18-2+deb13u2	fixed
	forky, sid	3.20-2.1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
iperf3	source	jessie	3.0.7-1+deb8u1		DLA-2080-1
iperf3	source	(unstable)	3.1.3-1			827116

Notes

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0001.txt.asc
https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/f01a9ca8f7e878e438a53687dabe30b7f7222912 (3.1.x)
http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/