CVE-2015-8863 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Project JQ

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow11 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
10.6%
top 6.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Jqlang JQJQ Project JQOpensuse Leap+1 more
Timeline
PublishedMay 6
Latest updateMay 14

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Debianjqlang/jq< 1.5+dfsg-1.1+3
▶NVDjq_project/jq1.5
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.1

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-j4rg-46c3-r5vq: Off-by-one error in the tokenadd function in jv_parse↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2015-8863: Off-by-one error in the tokenadd function in jv_parse↗2016-05-06
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OSV
CVE-2015-8863: Off-by-one error in the tokenadd function in jv_parse↗2016-05-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Microsoft
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.↗2016-05-10
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Red Hat
jq: heap-buffer-overflow in tokenadd() function↗2015-10-18
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Debian
CVE-2015-8863: jq - Off-by-one error in the tokenadd function in jv_parse.c in jq allows remote atta...↗2015
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8863 jq: heap-buffer-overflow in tokenadd() function↗2016-04-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8863 jq: heap-buffer-overflow in tokenadd() function [epel-7]↗2016-04-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8863 jq: heap-buffer-overflow in tokenadd() function [epel-6]↗2016-04-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8863 jq: heap-buffer-overflow in tokenadd() function [fedora-all]↗2016-04-20
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CVE-2015-8863 — JQ Project JQ vulnerability | cvebase