Candidate: CVE-2015-8863
PublicDate: 2016-05-06 17:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8863
 https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/995
 https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802231
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: 
Assigned-to: mikesalvatore
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [9.8 CRITICAL]

Patches_jq:
  upstream: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd
upstream_jq: released (1.5+dfsg-1.1)
precise_jq: DNE
precise/esm_jq: DNE
trusty_jq: released (1.3-1.1ubuntu1.1)
trusty/esm_jq: released (1.3-1.1ubuntu1.1)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_jq: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_jq: DNE
wily_jq: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_jq: released (1.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1)
yakkety_jq: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_jq: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_jq: not-affected
bionic_jq: not-affected
devel_jq: not-affected