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CVE-2015-8863

CVE-2015-8863

EPSS 7.5%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00012.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00014.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1098.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1099.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1106.htmlhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802231https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babdhttps://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/995https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-20http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/2