CVE-2016-4074

HIGH7.5EPSS 1.00%

Published: 5/6/2016Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

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.

Affected packages (2)

Alpine/jqfrom 0, < 1.6_rc1-r0
Debian/jqfrom 0, < 1.5+dfsg-1.1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-4074
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4074