UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8863
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8863, https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/995, https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8863
Affected packages
Package
Name: jq
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -1.3-1.1ubuntu1.1
Affected versions
1.2-8
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
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Integrity
None
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Availability
None
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High
