CVE-2016-10749

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10749

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10749.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-10749

Published

2019-04-29T14:29:00.363Z

Modified

2026-04-11T03:43:32.214120Z

Severity

9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

parse_string in cJSON.c in cJSON before 2016-10-02 has a buffer over-read, as demonstrated by a string that begins with a " character and ends with a \ character.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/davegamble/cjson

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/davegamble/cjson

Events

Introduced

Fixed

0d10e279c8b604f71829b5d49d092719f4ae96b6

Fixed

94df772485c92866ca417d92137747b2e3b0a917

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.0.0"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10749.json"

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-04-11T03:43:32Z"

vanir_signatures

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        "deprecated": false,
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                "110701872533830851366985102286714198017",
                "142488731430175457374910759457462576535",
                "55921998459652784669763853962360756393"
            ]
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/davegamble/cjson/commit/0d10e279c8b604f71829b5d49d092719f4ae96b6",
        "id": "CVE-2016-10749-38756e57",
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        "target": {
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        }
    },
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        },
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        "id": "CVE-2016-10749-432deb63",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "target": {
            "function": "parse_string",
            "file": "cJSON.c"
        }
    },
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        "digest": {
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        },
        "source": "https://github.com/davegamble/cjson/commit/0d10e279c8b604f71829b5d49d092719f4ae96b6",
        "id": "CVE-2016-10749-61c5e3f8",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "target": {
            "function": "cJSON_ReplaceItemInObject",
            "file": "cJSON.c"
        }
    },
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        "signature_type": "Line",
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    }
]