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Vulnerability details: VCID-gz7q-2wxq-uuc5
Vulnerability ID VCID-gz7q-2wxq-uuc5
Aliases CVE-2015-8863
Summary Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer 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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
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
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
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/2
CVE-2015-8863 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8863
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:36:33.447359+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/nuget/JQ.NET/CVE-2015-8863.yml 38.6.0