cve/2016/CVE-2016-4303.md

### [CVE-2016-4303](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4303)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164/

#### Github
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