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  - jq is a command-line JSON processor. An integer overflow vulnerability exists through version 1.8.1 within     the jvp_string_append() and jvp_string_copy_replace_bad functions, where concatenating strings with a     combined length exceeding 2^31 bytes causes a 32-bit unsigned integer overflow in the buffer allocation     size calculation, resulting in a drastically undersized heap buffer. Subsequent memory copy operations     then write the full string data into this undersized buffer, causing a heap buffer overflow classified as     CWE-190 (Integer Overflow) leading to CWE-122 (Heap-based Buffer Overflow). Any system evaluating     untrusted jq queries is affected, as an attacker can crash the process or potentially achieve further     exploitation through heap corruption by crafting queries that produce extremely large strings. The root     cause is the absence of string size bounds checking, unlike arrays and objects which already have size     limits. The issue has been addressed in commit e47e56d226519635768e6aab2f38f0ab037c09e5. (CVE-2026-32316)

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