MSRC_CVE-2015-8863

Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2016-05-02 00:00 - Updated: 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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