vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4787-1 (CVE-2016-4074): jq vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 6, 2016
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

It was discovered that jq did not perform sufficient bounds checking,
resulting in unbounded resource consumption. An attacker could use this
vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-jq
Title
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