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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-50268: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-50268: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
12/13/2023
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/14/2024

Description

jq is a command-line JSON processor. Version 1.7 is vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow in builds using decNumber. Version 1.7.1 contains a patch for this issue.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-jq

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