CVE-2015-8863
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 10.2%Published: 5/6/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/jqfrom 0, < 1.5+dfsg-1.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |