CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-43894

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-05-11 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-05-11
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, when decNumberFromString is given a number literal of INT_MAX-1 (2147483646) digits, the D2U() macro overflows during signed-int arithmetic. The wrapped negative value bypasses the heap-allocation size check, causes the function to use a 30-byte stack buffer, and then writes ≈715 million 16-bit units (≈1.4 GiB) at an offset 1.43 GiB below the stack frame. The written content is fully attacker-controlled (the parsed decimal digits, packed 3-per-unit).

Affected configurations

• jqlang jq (<= 1.8.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References