Google: app-misc/jq: security update to 18244.291.109

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 451621

Description

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

- decNumberCopy in decNumber.c in jq through 1.7.1 does not properly consider that NaN is interpreted as
numeric, which has a resultant stack-based buffer overflow and out-of-bounds write, as demonstrated by use
of --slurp with subtraction, such as a filter of .-. when the input has a certain form of digit string
with NaN (e.g., "1 NaN123" immediately followed by many more digits). (CVE-2024-53427)

Solution

Update the app-misc/jq library and its related packages to version 18244.291.109 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-113.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 451621

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 98.96

Vendor

Vendor Severity: HIGH

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53427

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53427