Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jq (opens in a new tab)
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- published6 May 2016
- disclosed6 May 2016
Introduced: 6 May 2016
CVE-2016-4074 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jq package and not the jq package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-4074
- 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