CVE-2015-8863

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Jq Project Jq: through 1.5
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.2

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

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