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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2016-4074)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4787-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that jq did not perform sufficient bounds checking, resulting in unbounded resource     consumption. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for jq fixes the following minor security issue :

  - CVE-2016-4074: stack exhaustion could affect     availability when parsing untrusted imput (bsc#1014176)

The following tracked packaging changes are included :

  - Update tests dependencies to increase test coverage     (bsc#1017157)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
219637	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-4074	Nessus	Misc.	high
183582	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : jq vulnerability (USN-4787-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
104115	openSUSE Security Update : jq (openSUSE-2017-1190)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2016-4074

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Tenable Plugins

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