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01 Record

CVE-2015-8863

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.

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: debian
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

02 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.

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
7.26% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 94.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2016-05-06 17:00Z10 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-06 08:29Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2016-04-23
Assigning CNA
debian
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
  • CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
  • CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant
Data version
5.1
Document digest
c1f0d85102fbc21657ade794cf0848bfc788056d3bffcfbd706c007a58164733

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
jq_projectjqNot specified—
opensuseleapNot specified—
opensuseopensuseNot specified—
redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—
redhatopenstackNot specified—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Debian 12

  • jq
    Fixed in 1.5+dfsg-1.1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 13

  • jq
    Fixed in 1.5+dfsg-1.1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Debian 14

  • jq
    Fixed in 1.5+dfsg-1.1

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

  • jq
    Fixed in 1.3-1.1ubuntu1.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

  • jq
    Fixed in 1.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.