CVE-2016-4074

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4074
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4074.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4074
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-05-06T17:59:07.303Z
Modified
2026-05-18T13:47:07.544196Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The jvdumpterm 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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/jqlang/jq

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/jqlang/jq
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
a5b5cbefb83935ce95ec62b9cadc8ec73026d33a
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.5"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:jq_project:jq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

jq-1.*
jq-1.0
jq-1.1
jq-1.2
jq-1.3
jq-1.4
jq-1.5
jq-1.5rc1
jq-1.5rc2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4074.json"