CVE-2015-4590 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75150 https://github.com/bblanchon/ArduinoJson/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/bblanchon/ArduinoJson/commit/5e7b9ec688d79e7b16ec7064e1d37e8481a31e72 https://github.com/bblanchon/ArduinoJson/pull/81