Vulnerability CVE-2015-8863
Published: 2016-05-06

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.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
10/10
10/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> LEAP 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Jq project -> JQ 

 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
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