Vulnerability CVE-2023-50268
Published: 2023-12-13   Modified: 2023-12-14

Description:
jq is a command-line JSON processor. Version 1.7 is vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow in builds using decNumber. Version 1.7.1 contains a patch for this issue.

Type:

CWE-120

 (Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'))

 References:
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/security/advisories/GHSA-7hmr-442f-qc8j
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/pull/2804
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/commit/c9a51565214eece8f1053089739aea73145bfd6b
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=64771
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