Security advisory

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    "summary": "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.",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 387408,
  "published_at": "2019-04-29T14:29:00.363+00:00"
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