CVE-2023-49355

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    CVE-2023-49355

    Published: 11 Dec 2023Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary:

    Details: decToString in decNumber/decNumber.c in jq 88f01a7 has a one-byte out-of-bounds write via the " []-1.2e-1111111111" input. NOTE: this is not the same as CVE-2023-50246. The CVE-2023-50246 71c2ab5 reference mentions -10E-1000010001, which is not in normalized scientific notation.

    References: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/88f01a741c8d63c4d1b5bc3ef61520c6eb93edaa/src/decNumber/decNumber.c#L3764, https://github.com/jqlang/jq/tree/88f01a741c8d63c4d1b5bc3ef61520c6eb93edaa, https://github.com/linzc21/bug-reports/blob/main/reports/jq/1.7-37-g88f01a7/heap-buffer-overflow/CVE-2023-49355.md, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/49xxx/CVE-2023-49355.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49355

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