PT-2016-4047 · Jq+1 · Jq+1

Jakub Wilk · Published 2016-05-06 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-8863

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

10

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions jq (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an off-by-one error in the tokenadd function, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) through a long JSON-encoded number. This triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1585

ALT-PU-2018-2594

AZL-6504

CVE-2015-8863

MGASA-2017-0415

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10409-1

RHSA-2016:1098

RHSA-2016:1099

RHSA-2016:1106

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Jq

References · 25

• https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8863 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-6504 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8863 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8863 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8863 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1098.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1106.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0415.html · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00014.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-20 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8863 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8863 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8863 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1099.html · Vendor Advisory