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
2026-08-07T14:48:25.654090Z
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
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
0d10e279c8b604f71829b5d49d092719f4ae96b6
Fixed
94df772485c92866ca417d92137747b2e3b0a917
Database specific
Show details 
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        "CPE_RANGE",
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    ],
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    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.0.0"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10749.json"
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vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-08-07T14:48:25Z"