CVE-2015-8863 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00012.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00014.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1098.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1099.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1106.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/2 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802231 https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/995 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-20

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8