Buffer Overflow and Over-read Vulnerability in Arduino JSON's extractFrom Function

CVE-2015-4590 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The extractFrom function in Internals/QuotedString.cpp in Arduino JSON before 4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a JSON string with a \ (backslash) followed by a terminator, as demonstrated by "\\\0", which triggers a buffer overflow and over-read.

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