A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in jq's tokenadd() function. By tricking a victim into processing a specially crafted JSON file, an attacker could use this flaw to crash jq or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the victim's system.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | jq | 2016-06-02 17:38 | ALAS-2016-705 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |