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RockyLinux 8 : jq (RLSA-2026:16252)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 314687

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:16252 advisory.

 * jq: out-of-bounds read in jv_parse_sized() on error formatting for non-NUL-terminated buffers (CVE-2026-39979)

 * jq: jq: Denial of Service via crafted JSON object causing hash collisions (CVE-2026-40164)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:16252

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458077

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458084

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 314687

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-16252.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 5/14/2026

Updated: 5/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-39979

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jq-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jq-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jq, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:jq-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-39979, CVE-2026-40164