msrc_cve-2015-8863
Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft
Published
2016-05-02 00:00
Modified
2021-12-16 00:00
Summary
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.
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