CVE-2023-50246

jq has heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the function decToString in decNumber.c

State: Published
Severity: 6.2 Medium
Published: Dec 13, 2023
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Dec 5, 2023

Description

jq is a command-line JSON processor. Version 1.7 is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow. Version 1.7.1 contains a patch for this issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.2 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
jqjqlang	= 1.7Affected

References

https://github.com/jqlang/jq/security/advisories/GHSA-686w-5m7m-54vc
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/commit/71c2ab509a8628dbbad4bc7b3f98a64aa90d3297
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=64574
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/15/10

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