CVE-2015-8863

critical

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-20

https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/995

https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-8719

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802231

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/1

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1106.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1099.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1098.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00014.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00012.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-05-06

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H