Alpine: multiple jq packages: security update to 1.5-r0 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 401049

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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.
(CVE-2015-8863)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401049

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8863

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/26/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8863

BID: 87523

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