Bug 1329982 (CVE-2016-4074) - CVE-2016-4074 jq: stack exhaustion via jv_dump_term() function
Summary: CVE-2016-4074 jq: stack exhaustion via jv_dump_term() function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-4074
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1416711 1329986 1329987 1329988 1331210 1331211 1331212 1331213
Blocks: 1328751
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Reported: 2016-04-25 08:41 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2025-04-17 20:01 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: jq 1.6
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Last Closed: 2016-05-06 02:43:31 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-04-25 08:41:38 UTC 
The following flaw was reported in jq:

A crash caused by stack exhaustion parsing a JSON was found. It affects, at least version 1.5 as well as the last git revision. Technical details and a reproducer are available here:

https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1136

Note that this flaw can only be exloited in a service that accepts untrusted JSON files, as explained by MITRE:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/141
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-04-25 08:42:24 UTC 
Created jq tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1329986]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1329987]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1329988]
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