Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting jq package, versions <1.6_rc1-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.93% (83rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE39-JQ-338867
- published 6 May 2016
- disclosed 6 May 2016
Introduced: 6 May 2016
CVE-2016-4074 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.9
jq
to version 1.6_rc1-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jq
package and not the jq
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.9
relevant fixed versions and status.
The jv_dump_term function in jq 1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted JSON file. This issue has been fixed in jq 1.6_rc1-r0.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4074
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4074
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1136
- https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10263
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18908
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/4
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-4074