CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4074
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
The jv_dump_term function in jq 1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted JSON file. This issue has been fixed in jq 1.6_rc1-r0.
Affected configurations
• jq project jq (<= 1.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18908 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10263 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/ Product, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1136 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18908 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10263 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/ Product, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1136 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory