vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2015-8863): jq vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 6, 2016
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

Off-by-one error in the tokenadd function in jv_parse.c in jq allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long JSON-encoded number, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-jq
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