Vulnerability Details CVE-2015-8863
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.106
EPSS Ranking 92.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 10.0
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00014.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1098.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1099.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1106.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/2
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802231
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/995
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-20
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00014.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1098.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1099.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1106.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/2
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802231
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/995
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-20