PT-2016-5837 · Jq+2 · Jq+2

Dolmen + 1 · Published 2016-05-06 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-4074

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions jq versions 1.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in stack consumption and application crash, via a crafted JSON file. This is due to a problem in the jv dump term function.

Recommendations For jq version 1.5, update to version 1.6 rc1-r0 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-770

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1830

ALT-PU-2018-2594

AZL-6505

CVE-2016-4074

MGASA-2017-0415

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:2833-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:2834-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10881-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2950-1

USN-4787-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ubuntu

Jq

References · 33

• 🔥 https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1136 · Exploit
• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18908 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4787-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4074 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:2950-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4074 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4074 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2016-4074 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0415.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-4074 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4787-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2017:2834-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4074 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-6505 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4074 · Security Note